Core Curriculum Guide: Knowledge Areas
Ethics
(1 course to be taken among courses in either the philosophical or theological and religious studies knowledge areas of the Core.)
Learning Outcome: Demonstrate ethical awareness, the ability to do ethical reflection, and the ability to apply ethical principles in decision-making.
Developing a student's ethical awareness, reflection, and decision-making ability is central to a Core Curriculum. Ethics enables a student to use specific capacities and skills to make moral decisions. Students should develop, demonstrate and act out their ethical abilities. This will occur as a student learns to recognize when situations call for ethical judgment and how to use the language and distinctions of ethics to respond ethically to those situations.
Competencies: By way of example, Loyola graduates should be able to:
- Recognize the need for ethical judgment.
- Distinguish alternative courses of action.
- Articulate the relevant ethical values, principles, rights, and virtues from the point of view of each stakeholder.
- Formulate and support an ethical judgment.
- Compare and contrast ethical theories and evaluate them in terms of strengths and weaknesses.
Ethics Courses
| Ethics and Communication | CMUN 217 |
| This course introduces students to the study of the ethical choices inherently involved in every intentional act of communication. Outcome: Students will be able to discern ethical communication issues, describe how moral principles play out in actual situations, and articulate and understand the thinking process in such matters. |
View syllabus Skill Area: -critical thinking -ethical awareness & decision making |
| Health Care Ethics - Civic Engagement | PHIL 164 |
| This course studies philosophical ethics as practiced in the health care setting. It includes a service learning experience and satisfies the civic engagement core requirement. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of traditional moral theories in a health care framework, as well as the varieties of ethical challenges facing contemporary health care. |
View syllabus Skill Area: critical thinking ethical awareness |
| Ethics | PHIL 181 |
| This course is a general introduction to ethics or moral philosophy. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of criteria for chosing between conflicting ethical theories, moral disagreement, the justification of moral judgments, and the application of ethical standards to practical decision-making and ethical questions that arise in everyday life. |
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| Social & Political Philosophy | PHIL 182 |
| This course will investigate one of the central questions of philosophy and social theory: How should we, as human beings, live together? Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the major philosophical questions in the area of social philosophy with attention to the historical and conceptual development of these questions, and be able to articulate some of the major problems and responses central to this area of philosophy. |
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| Health Care Ethics | PHIL 184 |
| This course studies philosophical ethics as practiced in the health care setting. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of traditional moral theories in a health care framework, as well as the varieties of ethical challenges facing contemporary health care. |
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| Business Ethics | PHIL 185 |
| This course is an introduction to ethics which focuses on ethical issues in the world of business and commerce. Outcome: Students will be able to examine and assess various ethical theories and apply those theories to ethical issues in business. |
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| Ethics and Education | PHIL 186 |
| This course examines philosophical ethics as it informs and guides the activity of teaching. Outcome: Students will be able to examine and assess various ethical theories, and apply those theories to ethical issues in teaching. |
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| Environmental Ethics | PHIL 187 |
| The course will look at various philosophical and ethical views on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Topics may include: pollution, animal rights, and natural resources. Outcome: Students will develop critical thinking skills and gain knowledge in the areas of philosophy and ethics. Students will have opportunities to analyze, evaluate, work as team members, and engage with the community on environmental topics and so will be able to engage civic and leadership activities. |
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| Moral Problems: Medical Issues | THEO 182 |
| This course offers both an exploration into U.S. healthcare and medical issues, especially as they relate to racial/ethnic and socio-economic disparities. It also offers an introduction to methods in ethics. In particular, the problem of U.S. healthcare quality and access disparities serves as a primary case study which provides practice in the steps of moral deliberation and the incorporation of various ethical theories that are possible to use. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of ethical comprehension, analysis, and decision-making within the context of select theological and religious traditions. |
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| Moral Problems: War/Peace | THEO 183 |
| To be determined. Outcome: To be determined. |
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| Moral Problems: Ecology | THEO 184 |
| To be determined. Outcome: To be determined. |
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| Moral Problems | THEO 192 |
| This variable topics course provides an introduction to theological and religious ethics through attention to a select number of moral problems. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of ethical comprehension, analysis, and decision-making within the context of select theological and religious traditions. |
View syllabus Skill Area: critical thinking ethical awareness |