Career Paths / Future Directions:
Business, Medical, Science, Social Sciences, Teaching
Description
This unit explores how and why humans choose which values to live by in principle and in practice. Ethics is a discipline that investigates the various methods for making ethical decisions about what is right or wrong, good or bad, about human decisions and actions. The areas of study are:
Ethical method in pluralist society
Religion and morality in pluralist society
Contemporary ethical issues in pluralist society
Outcomes
Explain ethical decision making in pluralist society.
Explain the ethical perspectives and moral viewpoints upheld by at least two religious traditions in pluralist society.
Analyse and evaluate two or more debates on contemporary ethical issues in pluralist society.
Assessment
Short Answer Questions / Extended Response Questions
Comparative and Analytical Reports / Oral Presentations
Analytical Essays
Career Paths / Future Directions:
Business, Medical, Science, Social Sciences, Teaching
Description
In this unit students study texts as a means of investigating social attitudes on issues such as justice, care for the environment, racism and gender roles. Therefore the texts selected for study should be potential sources of ideas about these or other issues in society. Some of the texts may call for change in attitudes and values; others may call for changes in social, religious and political institutions. Some texts may justify or support existing social, cultural, religious and political institutions, works, attitudes and values.
Assessment
Short Answer Questions / Extended Response Questions
Comparative and Analytical Reports / Oral Presentations
Analytical Essays