INSTITUTE OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES

University of the Punjab

Citizenship and Public Ethics
Course Coordinator Ms Saba Muhammad
Saba.muhammd@gmail.com
Day and time: Wednesday 12:30 pm-3:30pm

This course offers a comprehensive overview of major theories and developments in the
fields of citizenship and ethics.
Citizenship, embracing all aspects of our lives as citizens is relevant to each and every one of
us. Aspects of citizenship, from voter turnout to volunteering, from economic capability to
cultural change, from crime to social exclusion and from understanding multiple identities to
redefining our own identity, impact on all areas of our lives as some of the most challenging
issues of the 21st century. Citizenship life skills are about a person’s ability to understand and
participate in the institutions, economics, politics, laws, rights and responsibilities of civic
and civil society. Citizenship education, taught successfully, aims to give people the
knowledge, confidence and skills to become active citizens, acquiring the skills that enable us
to participate in the decisions that shape our future.

The ethical part of this course is an introduction to the philosophical study of morality,
including the theory of right and wrong behaviour, the theory of value (goodness and
badness), and the theory of virtue and vice. It is designed to find answers to some
fundamental questions about life and what makes it worth living. Questions like what makes
an action "right," or what makes us happy, what kinds of qualities should a person have or
avoid having, and how we should treat other people (and ourselves), and what "work ethic"
we want to follow. We won't be able to fully answer all of these, but our goal is to become
wiser than we were when we started.

Aims and Objectives:

After taking this course, students will be able to:

Understand and evaluate different theoretical and historical approaches to questions of

ethics, citizenship and civic engagement

Feel comfortable with engaging in the different perspectives regarding ethics and citizenship.

Think more clearly and explicitly about how democratic citizenship involves the “co-
creation” of society, and how different sets of values and different analyses of social facts can
lead to different forms of ethical outcomes, civic engagement and political action

Use these understandings to write well-argued analytical essays on civic, political, and global
issues of ethics, citizenship and civic engagement

Text Books.

Ethics: The Fundamentals

Julia Driver (2007)

Theories of Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy with a selection of Classic

Readings
Gordon Graham (2011)

Understanding Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Theory

Torbjorn Tannsjo (2002)

A Companion to Ethics
Edited by Peter Singer (1991)

Ethics and Management in the Public Sector

Alan Lawton,Julie Rayner and Karin Lasthuizen (2013)

Public Sector Ethics: Theory And Applications

Ssteven G. Koven (2015)

Citizenship in a Globalizing World

Edited by Ashok Acharya (2012)

Political Theory: An Introduction

Edited by Rajeev Bhargava and Ashok Acharya

An Introduction to Political Philosophy

Third edition. Jonathan Wolff

Relevant Journals

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Journal of Social Philosophy
Philosophy and Public Affairs
Environmental Values
Ethics and Information Technology
Ethics & International Affairs
Citizenship Studies Journal
Education, Citizen and Social Justice
Journal of Citizenship and Globalization Studies

Week One: Introduction and Orientation

Week Two:The Challenge to Moral Universalism (Chap 1 Driver)

God and Human Nature (Chap 2 Driver)
 Ethics, Truth and Reason (Chap 1 Graham)

Readings: Lying, Misleading, and Dishonesty Vol.:(0123456789)

The Journal of Ethics (2020) 24:141–164
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-019-09314-1

Week Three:Classical Utilitarianism (Chap 3 Driver)

Contemporary Consequentialism (Chap 4 Driver)

Utilitarianism (Chap 8 Graham)

Readings: Silvano Brunelli (2011) Human and Spiritual Values, World Futures,
56:3, 219-239, DOI: 10.1080/02604027.2001.9972803

Week Four: Kantian Ethics (Chap 5 Driver)

Kantianism (Chap 7 Graham)

Readings: Ingmar Persson, Julian Savulescu (2019) The Meaning of Life, Equality and
Eternity The Journal of Ethics 23:223–238 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-019-09296-0

Week Five: Social Contract Theory (Chap 6 Driver)

Contractualism: Moral Rules and Social Agreement (Chap 2 Graham)

Readings: Daniel Wikler (2002) Personal and Social Responsibility for Health
Reprinted from Ethics & International Affairs 16, no. 2 by Carnegie Council on Ethics and
International Affairs.

Week 6: Intuitionism (Chap 7 Driver)

Readings: Steve Cooke (2019) Betraying Animals The Journal of Ethics 23:183–200
doi.org/10.1007/s10892-019-09289-z

Week 7: Virtue Ethics (Chap 8 Driver)

Readings: Cheryl E.Sanders and Gary D.Phye (2004)Bullying Implications for the
Classroom Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

Week 8: Feminist Ethics (Chap 9 Driver)

Rajib Lochan Dhar (2012) Why Do They Bully? Bullying Behavior

and Its Implication on the Bullied in Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 27:79–99,

Readings: Elizabeth Anderson (1995) Feminist Epistemology:An Interpretation and a

Defense Hypatia Vol. 10, no. 3
Week 9: Environmental Ethics (chapter 10 Tannsjo)

Readings: Ph.Bourdeau (2004) The man-nature relationship and environmental ethics

Journal of Environmental  Radioactivity, 2004

Week 10: The Great Ethical Tradition: Islamic, Buddhist, Chinese, Indian, Jewish, Christian
and Islamic. (part 2 in A companion to ethics by peter singer)

Readings: Documentary
Food Wastage in Pakistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqEOT8D2oP4

Week 11: Historical Development of Citizenship

The Classical Conception of Citizenship (Chap 1&2 Acharya)

Readings: Junaid Rana (2007) The Story of Islamophobia, Souls, 9:2, 148-161

Week 12: Citizenship and National Identity

Liberal theories of Citizenship (Chap 3&4 Acharya)

Readings: JL Johnson, JL Bottorff, AJ Browne, S Grewal, B Hilton, Heather

Clarke(2004) Othering and being othered in the context of health care
services in Health Communication 16(2)253-271

Week 13: Multicultural Conception of Citizenship

Republican Conception of Citizenship (Chap 5&6 Acharya)

Readings: Patricia Weiss Fagen (2011) Refugees and IDPs after conflict: why they do not go
home Special Report United States Institute of Peace

Week 14: Feminist Conception

Citizenship and Diversity (Chap 7&8 Acharya)

Johan Galtung (1990) Cultural Violence Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 27, No. 3. pp. 291-
305.

Johan Galtung, Dietrich Fischer Violence: Direct, Structural and Cultural pp35-40

Week 15: Citizenship in Theory and Practice in a Globalizing World

Citizenship and Global Justice (Chap 9&10 Acharya)

Readings: Douglas P.Fry Life without War

Week 16: Cosmopolitan Citizenship (Chap 11 Acharya)

Course Design/ Teaching Methodology

The Ethics and Citizenship module has been designed as an interactive course, wherein the
students will engage actively in thought provoking debates and discussions with/amongst
each other. The role of the resource person would be that of a conductor/moderator. The
following activities have been planned to stimulate the students’ cognitive faculties.
GROUP PRESENTATIONS Students are expected to form groups of four/five members and
make presentations on topics either selected by them or assigned by the conductor.The
rationale behind this exercise is to improve interpersonal skills by working in teams—points
will be awarded on the performance of the group as a whole.
MIDTERM A midterm paper will be taken by the students. The examination will cover all
chapters and material that would have been discussed in class till then.
FINAL EXAMINATION At the end of the term a comprehensive examination will be taken
by the students.
ASSESSMENT
The students will be graded on their group presentations, class participation, midterm, and
final examinations.
The marks will be distributed as follows

Assignments 25%
Mid Term 35%
Final Exam 40%
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100%

CLASS ATTENDANCE
A minimum of 75% attendance is mandatory failing which the student will not be allowed to
sit for the final examination.
ETIQUETTES FOR MAINTAINING CLASS DECORUM
Punctuality is essential. Latecomers will not be awarded attendance.
Mobile phones should either be switched off or kept on silent mode.
A Zero Tolerance Policy for plagiarism is strictly enforced at IAS.