INFORMATICS COMPUTER INSTITUTE

ACADEMICS DEPARTMENT

ETHICS

A New General Education for Higher Education – First Semester

JUNE 2020
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SUBJECT TITLE : Ethics

SUBJECT DESCRIPTION : Ethics deals with principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the person, society, and in
interaction with the environment and other shared resources. (CMO 20 s 2013)

Morality pertains to the standards of right and wrong that an individual originally picks up from the community. The
course discusses the context and principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of individual, society, and in
interaction with the environment and other shared resources. The course also teaches students to make moral decisions by
using dominant moral frameworks and by applying a seven-step moral reasoning model to analyze and solve moral
dilemmas.

The course is organized according to the three (3) main elements of the moral experience: (a) agent, including
context — cultural, communal, and environmental; (b) the act; and (c) reason or framework (for the act).

A. LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course, the students must be able to:

1. Differentiate moral and non-Moral problems

2. Describe what a moral experience is as it happens in different levels of human existence
3. Explain the influences of Filipino culture on the way students look at moral experiences and solve moral dilemmas
4. Describe the elements of moral development and moral experiences
5. Use ethical frameworks or principles to analyze moral experiences
6. Make sound ethical moral judgments based on principles to analyze moral experiences
7. Develop sensitivity to the common good
8. Understand and internalize the principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of person, society, and in interaction with the
environment and other shared resources.

B. SUBJECT OUTLINE & TIME ALLOTMENT:

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LECTURE/
MODULE/CHAPTER
SCHEDULE TOPICS/CONTENT MEETING HOUR(S) ASSESSMENT READING
RESOURCES
Assignment Seatwork Quiz
JULY 13-17, Orientation to the Orientation to the 1 hr. 30
2020 course Course Session 1 mins.
Module 1: LESSON 1: Basic https://www.stu
Concepts of Ethics docu.com/ph/do
cument/bicol-
Ethical Dimension  Ethical university/ethics
of Human Existence /lecture-
Dimension of
Human notes/lesson-1-
Existence 1 hr. 30 ethics/4164041/
Session 2 mins. view
JULY 20,
2020  Differentiate
between moral
and non-moral
standards

July 22, 2020 LESSON 2 1 hr. 30 https://www.stu

– July 27, mins. docu.com/ph/do
2020  What are cument/bicol-
dilemmas? university/ethics
/lecture-
notes/lesson-2-
 Three levels of
ethics/4164042/
moral dilemmas Session 3 view
(individual
organizational,
systemic)

 Freedom as
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foundation for
moral acts

LESSON 3: https://www.stu
docu.com/ph/do
Culture in moral cument/bicol-
behavior university/ethics
 Culture and its /lecture-
role in moral notes/lesson-3-
behavior ethics/4164045/
view
 What is cultural
relativism? Why https://www.stu
is it not tenable docu.com/ph/do
in ethics? cument/bicol-
university/ethics
 Are there an 1 hr. 30 /lecture-
July 29, 2020 Asian and a Session 4 mins. notes/lesson-3-
Filipino rachels-1-
understanding of ethics/4164043/
moral behavior view
Strengths and
weaknesses? https://www.stu
docu.com/ph/do
cument/bicol-
university/ethics
/lecture-
notes/lesson-3-
ethics/4164044/
view

August 3-5, Lesson 4 1 hr. 30 https://www.stu

2020 Module 2:  How is a moral mins. docu.com/ph/do
character Session 5 cument/bicol-
The Moral Agent: developed? The university/ethics
Developing Virtue circular relation /lecture-
as Habit  of acts that build notes/lesson-4-
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character and ethics/4164039/

acts that view
emanate from
character
 Moral
development
a. The stages
of moral
development
b. How do we
get to the
highest
level,
conscience-
based moral
decisions?

LESSON 5
Session 6 1 hr. 30 https://www.stu
mins docu.com/ph/do
 The Filipino Way
cument/bicol-
August 10,  The Universal university/ethics
2020 Values /lecture-
notes/lesson-5-
ethics/4164040/
view

 How is moral https://plato.sta

character nford.edu/entrie
August 12, developed? Session 7 1 hr. 30 s/moral-
2020 mins character/
 Stages of Moral
Development http://bitly.ws/8I
5H
PRELIM EXAMINATIONS (AUGUST 18-20, 2020)

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Module 3: LESSON 6:

The Act Feelings and moral

decision-making

Feelings as https://www.stu
instinctive and
docu.com/ph/do
trained response to Session 8
cument/bicol-
moral dilemmas
August 24 – 1 hr. 30 university/ethics
26, 2020 mins /lecture-
 Why they can be
obstacles to notes/lesson-7-
making the right ethics/4164049/
decisions? view

 How they can

help in making
the right
decisions?
September 2 1 hr. 30 https://www.stu
– 9, 2020  Feelings and mins docu.com/ph/do
reason: Upsurge cument/bicol-
of Feelings is university/ethics
natural and what /lecture-
we do with them is Session 9 notes/lesson-7-
what makes us ethics/4164049/
ethical or unethical view

LESSON 7:

 The Ethical
requirement of
reason and
impartiality

 The 7 Step Moral

Reasoning Model
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 The Difference https://www.iep.

between Reason 1 hr. 30 utm.edu/kantvie
September 14
and Will Session mins w/
– 21, 2020
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MIDTERM EXAMINATIONS (SEPTEMBER 23 – 25, 2020)

Module 4: LESSON 8:
Pasco, M., Suarez,
V., & Rodriguez, A.
Frameworks and 1.Virtue ethics (2018). Ethics. C & E
Principles Behind  Aristotle Publishing, Inc., Edsa,
South Triangle,
our Moral  St. Tomas Session Quezon City
Disposition 11
Septmber 28 Frameworks 2. Kant and the 1 hr. 30 https://www.stu
– 30, 2020 rights theorist mins docu.com/ph/do
 Kant cument/bicol-
 Different kinds university/ethics
of rights /lecture-
notes/lesson-
8/4164050/view

October 5 – 7, LESSON 9: 1 hr. 30

Pasco, M., Suarez,
2020 mins V., & Rodriguez, A.
3. Utilitarianism (2018). Ethics. C & E
 Origins and Publishing, Inc., Edsa,
South Triangle,
Nature of Quezon City.
theory Session
 Business’s 12
fascination with
utilitarianism

4. Justice and
Fairness: Promoting
the common good
 The nature of
the theory
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Distributive
Justice

October 12 - LESSON 10: 1 hr. 30 https://www.wh

19, 2020 mins eaton.edu/medi
The challenges of a/migrated-
Module 5 pluralism and images-amp-
fundamentalism: files/media/files/
Ethics through The search for centers-and-
Thick and Thin, and universal values institutes/cace/b
Ethics and Religion ooklets/MoralPl
1.Globalization uralism.pdf
Session
and pluralism:
13 file://gpo-
New challenges
to ethics server/Instructo
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2.Challenges of %20Directory/rp
filinnials acudan/Downlo
ads/03-
3.The religious bennet.pdf
response: the
role of religion https://ethicsun
in ethicS wrapped.utexas
.edu/wp-
content/uploads
/2017/01/Ethical
-Challenges-
PDF-1-Elliott-
1.pdf
https://assets.c
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1_2slides.pdf
https://michigan
scouting.org/wp
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content/uploads
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Characteristics-
of-
Millennials.pdf
FINAL EXAMINATIONS (OCTOBER 21 – 23, 2020)