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North Eastern Mindanao State University

Bislig City, Surigao del Sur
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OUTCOMES-BASED COURSE SYLLABUS IN

GE 114 – ETHICS
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
2nd Semester, A.Y. 2022 – 2023

PHILOSOPHY

NEMSU believes that higher education is an instrument for the improvement of life through democratized access to quality education in the development
of a well-rounded person.

VISION
A transformative leading University in Asia and the Pacific.

MISSION
NEMSU shall provide competency-based higher education training through transformative instruction, relevant research, sustainable extension and
production responsive to local, regional and global trends.
1. Produce competent and skilled graduates prepared for gainful employment;
2. Develop graduates who shall not only foster economic progress but also care for the environment, adhere to positive value system, and preserve
cultural heritage;
3. Engage in high-impact research for instruction and develop technology for food security and renewable energy;
4. Collaborate with government and non-government agencies to help improve the lives of the marginalized groups; and
5. Promote cooperation/partnership among regional, national, and ASEAN institutions in Higher Education.

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CORE VALUES
Competence
A combination of observable and measurable knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal attributes that contribute to enhance SDSSU
employee and student performance and ultimately result in organizational success.
Accountability
Responsibility for own actions, decisions and commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient, cost-effective and transparent manner
manifesting the value of sound stewardship in the wise use of resources for common good.
Responsiveness
A prompt action, consistent communication, quality information, and a focus on providing a superior experience to stakeholders.
Excellence
The quality spectrum at exceptional levels demonstrated by learning outcomes and the development of shared culture of quality consistent
with the vision, mission and goals of University.
Service
Dedication for a continuous improvement of services, stakeholder relationships and partnerships which stresses interdependence and
collaboration for a sustainable success of clients and their communities in helping build a just, peaceful, stable, and progressive Filipino
nation.

NEMSU CARES…
These core values are not descriptions of the work we do, nor the strategies we employ to accomplish our University vision. They are
the core values that underlie our works and interactions as we internalize responsibilities to fulfill our mission. They are the basic elements of
how we go about our work and how we deal with stakeholders, molds students to become competent, innovative, globally competitive, and
service-oriented.

PROGRAM GOALS:
a) Apply knowledge of mathematics and science to solve complex engineering problems;
b) Develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data;
c) Design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints, such as economic, environmental, social, political,
ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability, in accordance with standards;
d) Function effectively on multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams that establish goals, plan tasks, and meet deadlines;
e) Identify, formulate and solve complex problems in electrical engineering;
f) Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering practice;

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 g) Communicate effectively with a range of audience;
h) Understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context;
i) Recognize the need for additional knowledge and engage in life-long learning;
j) Articulate and discuss the latest developments in the field of electrical engineering;
k) Apply techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for electrical engineering practice; and
l) Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of engineering and management principles as a member and/or leader in a team to manage project in
multidisciplinary environments.

COURSE INFORMATION

COURSE CODE : GE - 114

COURSE DESCRIPTIVE TITLE : Ethics
COURSE PRE-REQUISITES : None
CREDIT UNITS : 3.0 units
NO. OF HOURS : 54 Hours

Course Description:

Ethics deals with principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the person, and 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 the individual, and 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).
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course, the students must be able to.

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

Course Requirements

1. Assignments/Reflection, Reaction papers, Activities in the Modules

2. Portfolio/Compilation of Activity outputs
3. Major Exams

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Detailed Course Syllabus Matrix

Time Course Learning Outcomes Topics/Content Instructional Methodology Assessment Remarks

Frame

Orientation of
a. Explain general policies, course the VMGO and
descriptions, and other requirements Core Values of Essay:
of the course to establish a the University. Introduction to Course 1. Why rules are
connection to their respective important in our
Week 1
program. Course Discuss the rationale of lives?
the course.
Overview/ Suppose there is no law
Orientation of Lecture/Discussion in a day, what will you do
Requirements and what do you think
Students are instructed to will happen to your
Policies in the read the SDSSU Students community?
Student Handbook
Handbook

Activity:
a. Define ethics and other
Week 2 basic ethical terminologies Discussion and Questioning 1. Activity
output
and differentiate Morality Ethics: Its type technique 2. Analysis output
from ethics Meaning, Nature, 3. Application Task 1
b. Evaluate the importance of a nd Scope Using a Venn Diagram, only
ethics in our day-to-day illustrate the difference
experience and similarities of Morality
and Ethics.

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 c. Explicate the ethical aspect
of human life and the scope Essay
Week 3 of ethical thinking Activity:
d. Understand the terms that The Ethical Explain how you are
are relevant to ethical dimension of Video sharing and reflection. influenced by the kind of
thinking Human Existence environment you are
e. Evaluate real-life living.
moral/ethical issues
relevant to their context
 Discussion board on Reflective Essay
Discerning Moral
Week 4 a. Understand the nature of Moral Dilemma Narrate a story (actual
dilemma Discerning Moral  Quescussion experience of you or of
b. Relate the concept of moral Dilemma * Use logic instead of others) relating the
dilemma to the real situation emotion. concept of
* Weigh the pros and moral dilemma to real-
cons of each decision. life situation.
Week 5  Discussion board on Reflective Essay
The Morality of Human
Acts and Moral How do you know
a. Differentiate human acts and The Morality of whether your action is
Accountability
acts of man Human Acts and morally responsible?
 Quescussion
Moral 2. How do you find
1. What is Human Acts?
Accountability studying the morality of
b. Explain and evaluate the 2. What is the Acts of man?
principles of human acts 3. Which particular action do human acts and moral
you always do to classify as a accountability
human act? contributes to our daily
living?
Week 6 a. Define the idea of ethical and Ethical and Cultural  Quescussion Identification:
cultural relativism; Relativism Identify the strengths
1. If you are Moslem, is it and weaknesses of
b. Summarize the different right to practice polygamy? Ethical Relativism.
points of view of ethical Why?

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 relativism; and 2. On the other hand, if you
are Christian, is it wrong to
c. Point out the strengths and engage in same practice?
weaknesses of ethical Why?
relativism. 3. Could it be possible that a
certain practice is right at the
same time wrong? Why?
4. What would be the bases
of judging that a certain
practice is right or wrong?
 Discussion board on
Ethical and Cultural
Relativism
Week 7  Preliminary Activity:
Positive‐Negative
(identify statements
a. Define values; either a positive or
negative Filipino value.
b. Expound positive Filipino values;  Discussion board on
and Filipino Values and
Filipino values
how it is being shown
c. Bring out positive aspects from today.
negative Filipino values
GE 114: Ethics
Written Analysis
Reduce each point of
view of the Ethical
relativism into one
sentence.
1. Cultural Diversity
2. Argument from
Respect
3. Psychological
Argument
4. Argument from
Conformity
5. Provability Argument
Oral Recitation
1. Give 3 examples of
values that guide your
actions and give reason
why you
adhere to them.
2. Choose 2 Filipino
values and cite their
benefits to Filipino
people.
3. Choose 2 Filipino
values, and try to defend
their negative qualities.
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 Week 8 Emotions/Feelings  Diagnostic Exercise:  Oral
and Moral 1. What is a feeling? Participation
Decision-Making 2. What is emotion? a. How will you
3. What is the similarity or justify the
difference between statement, “Our
feelings and emotions? daily life is
a. Identify and differentiate peppered with
emotions and feelings;  Discussion Board on moral
b. Determine the effect of Emotions/Feelings and decisions?”
emotions/feelings on moral Moral Decision-Making
decision-making;  Create a Comic Strip  Discuss the
c. Apply moral decision-making in of how your emotions concepts of
day-to-day living. affect your decisions. emotions affecting
moral decision‐
making relying on
the figure
presented at the
module 3-chapter
1.
Week 9 MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Week 10 Identify the meaning of Reason, Reason, Quescussion Reflective Essay
Impartiality, and Moral Courage in Impartiality, and a. As a college student of
relation to their personal Moral Courage this institution, how Create a decision on
experiences would you situational dilemmas
demonstrate using the context of
Create a decision on situational moral courage? How impartiality.
dilemmas using the context of important is moral courage in (Refer to module 3-
impartiality. dealing with chapter 1)
diverse individuals every
Elucidate a problem using the 7-step day?
Model for ethical decision making. b. Explain your
understanding on the
passage of Mark

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 twain, an American
author and humorist,
“It is curious that
physical courage
should be a common
in the world and
moral so rare.”
Discussion board on
Reason, Impartiality, and
Moral Courage
Week 11  Preliminary Activity Essay
on Im(Moral)
Justification As a student, during this
Discuss the basic and significant
 Discussion board on pandemic is it right to
features of the ethics of
Utilitarianism say that it is okay to
utilitarianism;
 Quescussion gather with friends to
1. What makes utilitarianism celebrate birthday
Identify and describe the various Utilitarianism
a consequentialist theory of occasion? “Anyway we
elements of the hedonic calculus;
morality? are equipped with
2. How does Mill’s Personal Protective
Compare and contrasts the two types
utilitarianism differ with that of Equipment’s (PPE’s), we
of pleasures.
Bentham’s? Which do you take vitamins, and we
think is better? know we are Covid‐19
free”?
Week 12 Articulate the development and Natural Law Ethics  Video Reflection Share your insights
various interpretations of natural law “The Question of regarding the natural law
thinking; Same‐Sex Relations.” and the Church
Compare it with the teachings based on the
Identify the basic and universal Church’s position on following:
human inclinations according to St. the issue of
Thomas; homosexuality (as a. Contraception,
expressed in the b. Pre‐marital Sex,
Explain the various specific moral VATICAN’s c. Homosexuality, and

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 Declaration on Certain d. Masturbation.
principles under natural law theory; Questions Concerning
Sexual Ethics). Make
Apply natural law thinking in the your own personal
analysis of certain contemporary assessment.
issues pertaining to sexual morality.  Discussion Board on
Natural Law Ethics
Week 13  Preliminary Activity: Case Analysis
a. Demonstrate an
“The two honest Case Study 1: Killing
understanding of the basic
shopkeepers” one person to save five
principles of Deontology
hundred people
b. Apply the concept of Is motive more important than
Universalizability and Humanity the Case Study 2: The
to one’s moral experiences. consequence? Story of Rahab and the
c. Distinguish moral from immoral
acts using categorical imperative Israeli Agents
d. Differentiate Deontology from  Discussion Board on
other Moral Theories Deontological ethics Case Study 3: Daniel in
e. Identify the Strength and and Universalizing the Lions' Den
Weakness of Deontology. Maxims

Week 14 a. Explain the meaning of virtue, its
two types, and the basic
principles of virtue ethics (the
pursuit of happiness,
excellence, golden mean).
b. Distinguish virtuous acts from
non-virtuous acts and describe a
virtuous person.
c. Apply Aristotle’s ethics in
understanding the Filipino
Virtue ethics ENGAGING ACTIVITY 1: MY
VIRTUE “IDOL”
1. Think of a virtuous person
that you admire.
2. Why do you consider
him/her a virtuous person?
What virtues does s/he
possess?
3. Share your answer with
your seatmate.
 Discussion Board on
Apply Aristotle’s ethics in
understanding the
universal and Filipino
character
1. List down five specific
examples of particular
virtues that are
commonly
found among Filipinos.
Identify their
corresponding excesses
and

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 character concerning universal Virtue Ethics, and deficiencies. Do this in
virtues (virtues found in other Human Quest for tabular form. (Similar to
nationalities). Happiness the table above.)
2. Compare and contrast
d. Apply the insights of virtue ethics these Filipino virtues with
to the development of one’s virtues commonly found
personal character. articulate among other nationalities
some of virtue ethics’ strengths (focus only on one
and weaknesses nationality).
Week 15 Define and explain moral challenges
through an informal debate to
express personal understanding
about the concept;

Identify and explain the varied moral Ethical challenges

challenges of globalization; in globalization and
modernization
Describe the influence of internet
moral challenges;

.
WEEK 16 Define and understand “Millennials” “Millennials” and Quescussion Create a vlog or a Script
& “Fillennials”. “Fillennials”:
Ethical Challenges 1. What are the issues that “Apply” – Ethical
Explain the Traits/ Qualities of and Responses cause friction between Issues, Environmental
“Fillennials” and their Ethics, and
“Millennials”.
parents? Advocacies that
promote moral values.
Construct reflective moral Discussion Board on
challenges of “Fillennials”. “Millennials” and “Fillennials”:
Ethical Challenges and
Respond to the moral challenges of Responses

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 generation Y or “Millennials”. Poster Making

WEEK 17  Scenario Analysis Reflective Journal

Identify the steps in the ethical
decision;
 Discussion Board on 1. Are there regulations,
Demonstrate knowledge of Ethical Decision rules, or policies that
established methodologies of solving Ethical Decision Making and the 7‐Step restrict your choices/
ethical problems; Making Moral Reasoning actions?
Model) 2. How will your decision
Applying ethical decision-making affect others?
principles to solve a dilemma. 3. Ask yourself: Are my
actions legal?
WEEK 18 Final Exam & Submission of all output and requirements.

COURSE REFERENCES:

Textbooks:

Felix Montemayor, (1994) Ethics the Philosophy of life https://www.ligonier. org/blog/difference- between-ethics-and- morality/
Babor, Eddie R. (2006). Ethics: The Philosophical Discipline of Action. Rex Book Store, Inc.
Bulaong, Oscar G. Jr., et al (2018). Ethics: Foundations of Moral Valuation, 1st Ed. Manila: Rex Bookstore Inc.
Montemayor, Felix (2010). Ethics: The Philosophy of Life. Manila: Rex Bookstore Inc.
Websites:

https://www.britannica.com/science/Lawrence-Kohlbergs-stages-of-moral-development
https://youtu.be/_HLol9InMlc?t=134
https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-sex/is-porn-bad
https://www.csus.edu/indiv/g/gaskilld/ethics/kantian%20ethics.htm

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 http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/822013/minority-solons-oppose-same-sex-union-its-unnatural-unsightly-2.
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/01/27/1546749/senatirs-clash-over-playing-mamasapano-tapes;

GRADING SYSTEM:

Class Standing…………………………………… 40%

 Reaction/Reflection Paper ……10%
 Assignments ……10%
 ActivityParticipation
Examinations………
 Requirement

TOTAL 100%

Date of Revision : January 19, 2023

Date of Effectivity : January 30, 2023

Prepared by: Content Noted:

QUEENIELYN L. CAJEGAS MYRNA T. ALFEREZ

Instructor GE Program Coordinator
Date: January 19, 2023 Date: ___________

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 Reviewed by:

ADAM C. MACAPILI
Department Chair
Date: __________

Recommending Approval:

ROMEO A. PATAN, PhD

College of Arts and Sciences Dean
Date: ____________

Approved by:

MARIA LADY SOL A. SUAZO, PhD

Vice President for Academic Affairs
Date: __________

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