INFORMATICS COMPUTER INSTITUTE

ACADEMICS DEPARTMENT

ETHICS

A New General Education for Higher Education – First Semester

JUNE 2020
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SUBJECT TITLE : Ethics

SUBJECT DESCRIPTION : Ethics deals with principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the person, society, and in
interaction with the environment and other shared resources. (CMO 20 s 2013)

Morality pertains to the standards of right and wrong that an individual originally picks up from the community. The
course discusses the context and principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of individual, society, and in
interaction with the environment and other shared resources. The course also teaches students to make moral decisions by
using dominant moral frameworks and by applying a seven-step moral reasoning model to analyze and solve moral
dilemmas.

The course is organized according to the three (3) main elements of the moral experience: (a) agent, including
context — cultural, communal, and environmental; (b) the act; and (c) reason or framework (for the act).

A. LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course, the students must be able to:

1. Differentiate moral and non-Moral problems

2. Describe what a moral experience is as it happens in different levels of human existence
3. Explain the influences of Filipino culture on the way students look at moral experiences and solve moral dilemmas
4. Describe the elements of moral development and moral experiences
5. Use ethical frameworks or principles to analyze moral experiences
6. Make sound ethical moral judgments based on principles to analyze moral experiences
7. Develop sensitivity to the common good
8. Understand and internalize the principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of person, society, and in interaction with the
environment and other shared resources.

B. CONTENT ANALYSIS
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MODULE 1:
ETHICAL DIMENSION OF HUMAN EXISTENCE
LECTURE/ READING
SCHEDULE TOPICS/CONTENT MEETING HOUR(S) ASSESSMENT
RESOURCES
Assignment Seatwork Quiz Recitation
JULY 13-17, 1 hr. 30 Student Handbook
2020 Orientation to the Course Session 1
mins. Course Syllabus
LESSON 1: Basic Concepts https://www.studocu.c
of Ethics L1 om/ph/document/bicol-
university/ethics/lectur
 Ethical Dimension of e-notes/lesson-1-
1 hr. 30 ethics/4164041/view
Human Existence
JULY 20, Session 2 mins.
2020  Differentiate between
moral and non-moral
standards
LESSON 2 https://www.studocu.c
L2 L1 L1 om/ph/document/bicol-
 What are dilemmas? L2 L2 university/ethics/lectur
e-notes/lesson-2-
ethics/4164042/view
July 22, 2020  Three levels of moral 1 hr. 30
Session 3
– July 27, dilemmas (individual mins.
2020 organizational, systemic)

 Freedom as foundation for

moral acts

July 29, 2020 LESSON 3: 1 hr. 30 https://www.studocu.c

mins. L2 L3 om/ph/document/bicol-
Culture in moral behavior Session 4 L3 university/ethics/lectur
 Culture and its role in e-notes/lesson-3-
moral behavior ethics/4164045/view
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 What is cultural relativism? https://www.studocu.c

Why is it not tenable in om/ph/document/bicol-
ethics? university/ethics/lectur
e-notes/lesson-3-
 Are there an Asian and a rachels-1-
Filipino understanding of ethics/4164043/view
moral behavior Strengths
and weaknesses? https://www.studocu.c
om/ph/document/bicol-
university/ethics/lectur
e-notes/lesson-3-
ethics/4164044/view

MODULE 1
CLASS PARTICIPATION LESSON DUE DATE
ASSIGNMENT
L1 July 20, 2020
SEATWORK L2 July 22, 2020
L3 July 29, 2020
L1 & L2 July 27, 2020
QUIZ
L3 July 29, 2020
RECITATION L1 & L2 July 22, 2020

MODULE 2:
THE MORAL AGENT: DEVELOPING VIRTUE AS HABIT 
SCHEDULE TOPICS/CONTENT MEETING HOUR(S) ASSESSMENT LECTURE/ READING
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RESOURCES
Assignment Seatwork Quiz Recitation
LESSON 4:
Session 6 1 hr. 30 L4 L4 L4 https://www.studocu.c
mins om/ph/document/bico
 The Filipino Way
l-
 The Universal Values university/ethics/lectu
re-notes/lesson-4-
August 3-5, ethics/4164039/view
2020
https://www.studocu.c
om/ph/document/bico
l-
university/ethics/lectu
re-notes/lesson-5-
ethics/4164040/view
LESSON 5:
 How is a moral character https://plato.stanford.
developed? The circular L4 edu/entries/moral-
relation of acts that build Session 7 L4 L5 L5 character/
character and acts that
emanate from character http://bitly.ws/8I5H
August 10- 1 hr. 30
12 , 2020  Moral development mins
a. The stages of moral
development
 How do we get to the highest
level, conscience-based moral
decisions?
PRELIM EXAMINATIONS (AUGUST 18-20, 2020)

MODULE 2
CLASS PARTICIPATION LESSON DUE DATE
ASSIGNMENT L4
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L4 August 3, 2020
SEATWORK
L5 August 10, 2020
QUIZ L4 & L5 August 12, 2020
RECITATION L4 August 5, 2020
L1
L2
PRELIM EXAM L3 August 18 – 20, 2020
L4
L5

MODULE 3:
THE ACT
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LECTURE/ READING
SCHEDULE TOPICS/CONTENT MEETING HOUR(S) ASSESSMENT
RESOURCES
Assignment Seatwork Quiz Recitation
LESSON 6:

Feelings and moral decision-

making
https://www.studocu.
Feelings as instinctive and L6 L6 L6 com/ph/docu006Dent
trained response to moral
August 24 – Session 8 1 hr. 30 /bicol-
dilemmas
26, 2020 mins university/ethics/lectu
 Why they can be obstacles
re-notes/lesson-7-
to making the right ethics/4164049/view
decisions?

How they can help in making

the right decisions?
LESSON 7: https://www.studocu.
 Feelings and reason: com/ph/document/bic
Upsurge of Feelings is L7 L7 L7 L7 ol-
natural and what we do with university/ethics/lectu
them is what makes us re-notes/lesson-7-
ethical or unethical Session 9 1 hr. 30 ethics/4164049/view
September
2 – 9, 2020 mins
 The Ethical requirement of
reason and impartiality

 The 7 Step Moral Reasoning

Model

LESSON 8: https://www.iep.utm.e
September 1 hr. 30 du/kantview/
14 – 21, The Difference between Session 10 mins L7 L8 L7 L8
2020 Reason and Will L8 L8

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MIDTERM EXAMINATIONS (SEPTEMBER 23 – 25, 2020)

MODULE 3
CLASS PARTICIPATION LESSON DUE DATE
ASSIGNMENT L7 September 2, 2020
L6 August 24, 2020 & September 21, 2020
SEATWORK L7 September 2, 2020
L8 September 14, 2020
L6 August 26, 2020
QUIZ L7 September 9, 2020
L8 September 21, 2020
L6 August 26, 2020 & September 21, 2020
RECITATION L7 September 9, 2020 & September 21, 2020
L8 September 21, 2020
L6
MIDTERM EXAMINATION L7 September 23 – 25, 2020
L8

MODULE 4:
FRAMEWORKS AND PRINCIPLES BEHIND OUR MORAL DISPOSITION FRAMEWORKS
LECTURE/ READING
SCHEDULE TOPICS/CONTENT MEETING HOUR(S) ASSESSMENT
RESOURCES
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Assignment Seatwork Quiz Recitation

LESSON 9:
Pasco, M., Suarez, V., &
Rodriguez, A.(2018). Ethics.
1.Virtue ethics C & E Publishing, Inc., Edsa,
 Aristotle South Triangle, Quezon City
 St. Tomas Session 11
September https://www.studocu.
1 hr. 30 L9 L9 L9
28 – 30, com/ph/document/bic
2. Kant and the rights theorist mins
2020 ol-
 Kant
university/ethics/lectu
 Different kinds of rights
re-notes/lesson-
8/4164050/view

LESSON 10: Session 12

Pasco, M., Suarez, V., &
L10 L10 L10 Rodriguez, A.(2018). Ethics.
3. Utilitarianism C & E Publishing, Inc., Edsa,
 Origins and Nature of South Triangle, Quezon City.
theory
 Business’s fascination with 1 hr. 30
October 5 –
7, 2020 utilitarianism mins

4. Justice and Fairness:

Promoting the common good
 The nature of the theory
Distributive Justice

MODULE 4
CLASS PARTICIPATION LESSON DUE DATE
ASSIGNMENT
SEATWORK L9 September 28, 2020
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L10 October 5, 2020

L9 September 30, 2020
QUIZ
L10 October 7, 2020
L9 September 30, 2020
RECITATION
L10 October 7, 2020

MODULE 5
ETHICS THROUGH THICK AND THIN, AND ETHICS AND RELIGION
LECTURE/ READING
SCHEDULE TOPICS/CONTENT MEETING HOUR(S) ASSESSMENT
RESOURCES
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Assignment Seatwork Quiz Recitation

LESSON 11: https://www.wheaton.
edu/media/migrated-
The challenges of pluralism images-amp-
and fundamentalism: The files/media/files/cente
search for universal values L11 L9 L11 rs-and-
L10 institutes/cace/bookle
1.Globalization and L11 ts/MoralPluralism.pdf
pluralism: New challenges
to ethics file://gpo-
Session 13 server/Instructors
2.Challenges of filinnials %20Directory/rpacud
an/Downloads/03-
The religious response: bennet.pdf
the role of religion in
ethics https://ethicsunwrapp
ed.utexas.edu/wp-
1 hr. 30
October 12 content/uploads/2017
- 19, 2020 mins /01/Ethical-
Challenges-PDF-1-
Elliott-1.pdf
https://assets.corpora
tecompliance.org/Port
als/1/PDF/Resources/
past_handouts/Highe
r_Ed/2017/V1__ses_
401_2slides.pdf
https://michiganscouti
ng.org/wp-
content/uploads/2017
/11/Five-
Characteristics-of-
Millennials.pdf
FINAL EXAMINATIONS (OCTOBER 21 – 23, 2020)
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MODULE 5
CLASS PARTICIPATION LESSON DUE DATE
ASSIGNMENT
SEATWORK L12 October 19, 2020
L9
QUIZ L10 October 19, 2020
L11
RECITATION L11 October 19, 2020
L9
FINAL EXAMINATION L10 October 21 – 23, 2020
L11

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