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Ethics in Professional Communication (Diversity)

General

Prefix

PHIL

Course Number

329

Course Level

Undergraduate

Department/Unit(s)

Philosophy

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.

Course Outline

Course Outline

Ethical concepts and theories, such as virtue ethics, care ethics, consequentialism, deontology, rights theory, etc. 20% Ethical issues that arise in the use of racial, or regional terms to describe individuals or groups of people. 10% Ethical issues centered on privacy, disclosure, transparency, managing data and information in professional communication. 10% Ethical issues centered on free expression and publishing offensive material. 10% Ethical issues centered on the power of professional communication to influence moral and social norms. 10% Application of ethical theories to the issues. 20% Development of student's own ethical viewpoint of professional communication. 20%

Dependencies

Programs

PHIL329 is a completion requirement for: