COURSE GUIDE

Course: Ethics Semester: 1st School Year: 2022 – 2023

Class Schedule: Instructor: Hannah C. Ambida
Course Description:
Ethics deals with principles of ethical behaviour 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 behaviour 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 analyse 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)
This course includes the mandatory topic on taxation.

Course Outline
SCHEDULE TOPIC
Orientation of the subject and class room policies; VMGO

Moral and Non-Moral Standards

Week 1-2
Moral Experience

Moral Dilemmas

Freedom as Basic Requirement of Morality

Week 3-4 What is Culture

Cultural Relativism
The Filipino Way

Universal Value
Week 5-6
Universal Values and Human Survival
Development and Stages of Moral Character

Week 7-8 Personal Growth and Stages of Development

Reason and Impartiality as Requirements for Ethics

MIDTERM EXAM
Feelings and Reason

Week 9 Reasoning

The Difference Between Reason and Will

Moral Theories and Mental Frames
Week 10-11

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Week 12 Aristotle and St. Aquinas on Virtue

Immanuel Kant’s Theory of Right

Week 13

Week 14 Utilitarianism

Week 15 Justice and Fairness

Week 16 Globalization and Its Ethical Challenges

Week 17-18 Millennials and Fillinials’ Ethical Challenges and Responses

Final Exam
Course Requirements
Midterm & Final Examinations
Chapter Assessments
Group Presentations
Course Learning Outcomes Required Output
CLO 1. Differentiate between moral and non- Midterm & Final Examinations
moral problems. Quizzes
CLO 2. Describe what a moral experience is Essay
as it happens in different levels of Oral recitations
human existence.
CLO 3. Explain the influence of Filipino culture
on the way students look at moral
experiences and solve moral
dilemmas.
CLO 4. Describe the elements of moral
development and moral experience.
CLO 5. Use ethical frameworks or principles to
analyze moral experiences.
CLO 6. Make sound ethical judgments based
on principles, facts, and the
stakeholders affected.
CLO 7. Develop sensitivity to the common
good.
CLO 8. Understand and internalize the
principles of ethical behaviour in
modern society at the level of the
person, society, and in interaction with
the environment and other shared
resources.
Course Policies Grading System

1. For each chapter, there are discussion, 1. There will be two rating periods: Mid-term,
examples, and exercises as a course and Finals
requirement to contribute 60% of your 2. The grade for each rating period shall be

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2. Students shall faithfully observes prompt 60%- Class Standing
and regular attendance in all class 40%- Major Examination
sessions. 3. Mid-Term Grade+Final Grade/2
3. Time lost by late enrolment is Average Grade = (Mid-term Grade+Final
considered lost by absence. Grade)/2
4. A student, who for unavoidable cause
(s) absents himself/herself from class
must obtain an excuse slip from the
College Dean to be presented to the
instructor concerned not later than the
second class session following the
student’s return.
5. In case of absence due to illness, a
medical certificate must be obtained
from the attending physician or
university physician and must be
presented to the instructor not later than
the second class session following the
student’s return.
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Consultation Schedule
Friday, 8am-12:00 pm

Prepared by: Approved:

HANNAH C. AMBIDA EDUARDO S. LINGAN

Instructor Department Head

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