ETH 3205 (LUOA), ETHC 205 (LUO): Ethical Reflections on Human Life

11/08/2019 to 04/16/2020 • Modified 03/11/2025

Course Description

Rationale

In recent years, traditional models and values of human life have come under serious question. With the growing acceptance of ethical relativism as well as the acceptance of functionalistic and materialistic models of human beings, moral values and decisions have become vague and confusing. This course will help the student to steer more clearly through the moral fog he or she will encounter as he or she attempts to live out a Christian ideal of a flourishing human life and within a social matrix with others of varying beliefs and values.

Course Assignment

Textbook readings and lecture presentations

Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions (2)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt within relevant modules. For each Discussion, the thread must be 400–500 words and demonstrate relevant module curriculum-related knowledge. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to one classmate’s thread. The reply must be 300–400 words. Citations are not necessary for Discussions, but any quotes from the textbooks or outside sources must be put in quotation marks and be cited using footnotes in current Turabian format. (CLO: A, B, C, D; FSLO: CT 2, 3, CC 3, CGE 3, and SSI 3)

Ethical System Position on Sexual or Gender Ethics Issue Research Paper Assignment

The student will write a 1000–1500-word research-based paper that focuses on applying the student’s chosen ethical system to a specific sexual or gender related ethical issue that is covered in the curriculum, comparing it to how one competing ethical system would address the same issue. One of the systems must be Christian ethics. The paper must include at least one citation from both of the two course textbooks in addition to at least one citation from the Bible. The paper must be in current Turabian format. (CLO: A, B, C, D; FSLO: CT 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, CC 3, and SSI 3)

Topic and Bibliography Assignment

The student will submit a topic and short sample bibliography in preparation for the Capstone Ethical Issue Research Paper Assignment. The topic submission must include a 75–150-word explanation of which two systems will be compared and what specific ethical topic they will address. Word count does not include bibliography entries. This is NOT an annotated bibliography. Turabian bibliographical entries to at least 2 relevant scholarly sources other than the textbooks must be included for the bibliography section. (CLO: A, B, C, D; FSLO: CT 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, CC 3, and SSI 3)

Capstone Ethical Issue Research Paper Assignment

The student will write a 2100–2400-word research-based paper that focuses on applying the student’s chosen ethical system to a specific ethical issue covered in the curriculum and comparing it to how a competing ethical system would address the same issue. One of the systems must be Christian ethics and the paper must cover a different specific ethical issue than was covered in the Ethical System Position on Sexual or Gender Ethics Issue Research Paper Assignment. The paper must include at least two academic references in addition to referencing the two course textbooks and the Bible. The paper must use current Turabian format. (CLO: A, B, C, D; FSLO: CT 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, CC 3, and SSI 3)

Quizzes (4)

Each quiz will cover the Learn material for the relevant Modules: Weeks. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes and contain 25 multiple-choice, true/false, short-answer, or fill-in-the-blank questions. Each quiz will have a 45-minute time limit. (CLO: A, B, C, D, E; FSLO, CT 1, 3, 5 and CGE 3).