Course Details

Canvas:

Course information, including all activities via the modules are available via our course Canvas site.

Conventions:

We commit ourselves to act with academic integrity. That is, to be

ethical in what we say and what we write, and to give credit to others for thinking

and writing and sharing their ideas before us. I believe that everyone in this course

is fundamentally honest, and I will help you to adhere to academic conventions. If

you cite something in your Medium posts, please use APA format as outlined in the

first-year writing course. This is very important, as writing is an ethical

responsibility. APA conventions are available for free online (I love the Purdue

OWL website) and are also outlined via the Ontario Tech Library:

https://guides.library.uoit.ca/ld.php?content_id=4715041.

Participation:

As co-collaborators in creating our learning space, we’ll be relying

on each other’s informed, honest, and active involvement with our course topics.

Please remember to be open to each other's ideas, and to support your colleagues

in their discovery of new processes, their questions, and their articulation of

thought. If you have to miss any of our classes, please know that we will miss your

presence in the Zoom meetings.

Course syllabus:

Please read the syllabus carefully and completely, and stay on

top of submission dates via the Modules section in Canvas. The best way to start on

a path to success is to read and understand your syllabus and to put due dates into

your personal calendar. Once you have read this syllabus to completion please

email me (sharon.lauricella@uoit.ca) describing in a sentence or two something

that has changed for you/that you miss/that you learned due to pandemic

restrictions.

Medium:

Each week, there is a writing activity based on the readings/videos/podcasts/case study for that week's topic. Everyone will make a

post in Medium and hashtag it by the Tuesday before the next class. By the

Wednesday before the next class, you'll reply to at least three posts made by your

classmates. This encourages deeper interaction with the course information

and allows you to connect with others in the course. The flow of the course (posts

due on Tuesday, responses due on Wednesday, meetings on Thursday) will start

right away and you'll get in the groove quickly.

• Discussions:

On Thursdays during our Zoom meetings, we'll debrief the case

study/activity for the week, and address the general vibe of everyone's posts.

Students will lead these discussions after Week 2. I will open the opportunity for

students to form a group and volunteer to lead the discussion for each week. If you

are terrified to lead a discussion, even in a group, I won't force you to -- we need

both participants and leaders. I intend that students will lead the discussions each

week and that those students discussing will be engaged and discussion will

even sometimes be heated!

• Exams: NO.

Okay, a little more on exams. I don't think that forcing students to memorize

concepts and names under the pressure of time and space is much of a help in

studying ethics. What we need is to think carefully about our cases, talk about

them as a group, and wrestle with these concepts. Exams don't allow us this

opportunity, so, again, I give a big no to exams. In the final week of class, we'll have

what I call an "Epic Finale" which is a fun wrap-up to the course.