Ethics in Professional Communication (Diversity)
General
Prefix
PHIL
Course Number
329
Course Level
Undergraduate
Instruction Mode
Lecture
Department/Unit(s)
College/School
College of Liberal Arts
Description
Theories and principles of ethics, including virtue ethics and care ethics, applied to ethical issues in professional communication, such as the use of ethnic, racial, and regional terms to talk about individuals and groups of people, offensive images or language, privacy, transparency and disclosure, and their influence on social and ethical norms.
Credits
Min
3
Max
3
Repeatable
No
Goals and Diversity
MN Goal Course
Yes
MN Goal Designation(s)
09
Cultural Diversity
Yes
Learning Outcomes
Outcome
Identify the major moral theories and principles relevant to particular moral issues that arise in professional communications, including virtue ethics, care ethics, consequentialism, deontology, and rights theory.
Outcome
Explain the moral conflict that appears to arise between free expression and the communication of offensive or plainly false contents – as in pornography, conspiracy theories, and hate speech.
Outcome
Evaluate the moral permissibility of nudging and other forms of soft and hard paternalism.
Outcome
Evaluate the moral permissibility of marketing products to vulnerable populations – as in marketing sugary food to children or medicines to seriously ill adults.