Ethical Issues in Professional Life

• • The relationship between moral philosophy and applied ethics in professional life
  • The relevance of ethics to specialisation
  • Power and privilege in the professions
  • Performance assessment
  • Codes of ethics
  • Institutional values
  • Corporate ethical culture
  • Confidentiality
  • Secrecy and truth telling in counselling
  • Professional and management responsibility and accountability
  • Dealing with power and authority
  • Conflict resolution
  • Performance assessment and discipline

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• UND-HPE-GDI-2022
• UND-HPE-MAS-2022
• UND-LDR-MAS-2022
• UND-HLS-GDI-2022
• UND-HLS-MAS-2022

Elective

• UND-ELM-GCE-2022
• UND-ELM-MAS-2022
• UND-ELM-MAS-2022
• UND-HED-GDI-2022
• UND-HED-MAS-2022
• UND-MHA-GDI-2022
• UND-NUR-GDI-2022
• UND-NUC-MAS-2022
• UND-CLS-GCE-2022

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This course will explore the relationship between moral philosophy and applied ethics in professional life. Further, we study such issues as the relevance of ethics to specialisation, power and privilege in the professions, performance assessment, codes of ethics institutional values and corporate ethical culture. Specialist seminar topics may include: confidentiality, secrecy and truth telling in counselling; professional and management responsibility and accountability; dealing with power and authority, conflict resolution, performance assessment & discipline.

Online Discussion Board/Forum – 20% Written Audit - Ethical Audit (complete template no more than 5,000 words) - 60% Written essay Teleological Analysis (1000 words) - 20%

• 10 individual posts based on weekly lessons (20%)
• Ethical Audit (complete template no more than 5000 words) (60%)
• Teleological Analysis (1000 words) (20%)

Current study term: 24 Jul 22 to 28 Oct 22