INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS: THEORY AND APPLICATION
COURSE SCHEDULE AND GRADED ASSESSMENTS
Grading Policy
UNIT
TITLE
CLASS
TIME
0
POINT
VALUE
20
3 hours
54 points
6 hours
51 points
Performance Assessment
Strategy #3: Interviewing
Someone of a Different
Faith
In-Class Activity:
Establishing Life’s
Priorities
In-Class Activity: MUST
be done outside of class if
class is missed
Performance Assessment
Strategy #4: Writing Your
Personal Code of Conduct
3 hours
93 points
3 hours
Check-Off:
25 points
6 hours
Check-Off:
Ungraded
Ethical Theories Performance Assessment
Strategy #5: Group Power
Point Presentation: Ethical
Theories
6 hours
1
Dialogue by
Talking /
Ground Rules
1
Dialogue by
Talking /
Ground Rules
Conscience as
a Moral Guide:
Kohlberg,
C.P. Ellis, and
Oscar Romero
Religion as a
Moral Guide:
Weston &
Ghandi
Values: Life’s
Priorities
2
3
4
4
4
5
Values:
Mapping Moral
Debates
Values:
Personal Code
of Conduct
ASSESSMENT
Before second class
meeting, completed all of
the following: Read
Weston’s introductory
remarks and all of Chapter
14, read the Syllabus, and
purchased three-ring
binder and separators for
this class only
Performance Assessment
#1: Observing Yourself as
a Communicator
Performance Assessment
#2: Assessing Conscience
as a Moral Guide
Core Abilities –
Cooperative Group Work
Performance Assessment
Strategy #6: Ethical
88 points
105 points
35 points
73 points
POINTS
EARNED
6
Critical Thinking
Skills
Theories: Personal
Analysis
Performance Assessment
Strategy #7: Stolen Drug
Case
9 hours
80 points
43 points
UNIT
TITLE
7
Business
Codes of Ethics
8
Ethics Case
Study
Performance Assessment
Strategy #8: Critical
Thinking Skills Application
ASSESSMENT
Performance Assessment
Strategy #9: Analyzing
Business Codes of Ethics
Performance Assessment
Strategy #9: Ethical Case
Study Presentation (Group
or Individual Presentation)
CLASS
TIME
0 hours
POINT
VALUE
78 points
POINTS
EARNED
305 points
Total Points 1,060
Grading Scale:
All Assessment Tasks must be passed by at least 75%.
A
93-100% of points possible
B
85–92% of points possible
C
75-84% of points possible
NC 74% or lower of points possible