METRO DUMAGUETE COLLEGE, INC.

E.J. Blanco Extension Road, Brgy. Daro, Dumaguete City, Philippines 6200
Telephone Nos. (035) 420-9801, 420-9728 or 422-4605
Website: www.mdci.edu.ph

COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE DETAILS

Course Descriptive Title Ethics Course Type Lecture

Course Code GCET 12 Course Contact Hours 36 hours in a Semester

Course Credits 3 Units Course Pre-requisites

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.

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
Course Description
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) min elements of the moral experience: (a) agent, including context- cultural,
communal, and environment; (b) the act, and (c) reason or framework (for the act).
Course Learning Outcomes At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

KNOWLEDGE:
CLO 1. Differentiate between moral and non-moral problems;
CLO 2. Describe what a moral experience is as it happens in different levels of 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. Develop sensitivity to the common good
 CLO 7. Understand and internalize the principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the person, society and
in interaction with the environment and other shared resources.
SKILLS:
CLO 8. Make sound ethical judgements based on principles, facts, and the stakeholders affected.
ATTITUDE:
CLO 9. Promote the ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the person, society and in interaction with the
environment and other shared resources.

COURSE OUTLINE AND TIMEFRAME

Week/s Course Content
Unit 0. Class Orientation
A. Course Goals and Outcomes
1
B. Course Policies and Grading System

Unit 1. The Ethical Dimension of Human Behavior

2-4 A. Culture in moral behavior
B. The moral agent: Developing virtue as habit
Unit 2. Utilitarianism
5-7 C. Origins and nature of theory
D. Business’s fascination with utilitarianism
8-10 Unit 3. Frameworks and Principles Behind our Moral Disposition Frameworks
E. Virtue Ethics
1. Aristotle
a.) Telos
b.) Virtue as habit
c.) happiness as virtue
2. St. Tomas: Natural law
a.) The natural and its tenets
b.) Happiness as constitutive of moral and cardinal virtues
F. Kant and rights theorists
 3. Kant
a.) Good will
b.) Categorical imperative
4. Different kinds of rights
a.) Legal
b.) Moral
11 Midterm Examination
Unit 4. Deontology
A. Duty and Agency
12-15 B. Rational will
C. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Unit 5. What Is Virtue Ethics?

16-17 A. Moral and Intellectual Virtue
B. Moral character in the community
18 Final Examination

COURSE LEARNING PLAN

Course
Specific Learning
Week Learning Teaching and Learning Outcome - Based Resource
Outcomes (SLO) Course Content (Topics)
No. Outcomes Activities (TLA) Assessment (OBA) Materials
(CLO)
Unit 0. Class Orientation Discussion of the Presentation of Power Point
A. Course Goals and expectations of both expectations and self- Presentation,
Outcomes professor and students. introduction. Online platforms
B. Course Policies and such as
1 Grading System Discussion of online Zoom/Messenger
C. Subject Introduction classroom etiquettes. room

Play self-introduction
game.
  Differentiate Unit 1. The Ethical 1. Lecture/Discussion 1. Produce examples of Computer/Laptop
between moral Dimension of Human 2. Comparative analysis of culture in moral
and non-moral Behavior primary sources and behavior
CLO 1 problems. D. Culture in moral culture in moral behavior 2. Brainstorm and come
CLO 3  Explain the behavior up with a list of
CLO 5 influence of E. The moral agent: common Filipino values.
CLO 8 Filipino culture Developing virtue as Consider the strengths
on the way habit sources, and and weaknesses of
students look different kinds of these
at moral primary sources. 3. Create an output that
experiences shows your opinion
and solve about this line: “What I
moral believe must be true if I
dilemmas. feel very strongly about
2-4
 Use ethical it.”
frameworks or
principles to
analyze moral
experiences.
 Make sound
ethical
judgments
based on
principles, and
facts, and the
stakeholders
affected.

5-7
1. Graded reporting Computer/Laptop
 Describe what Unit 2. Utilitarianism 1.Lecture/Discussion 2. Quizzes
a moral a. Origins and 2. Library research 3. Critical Essay about a
experience is nature of theory 3. Textual analysis particular primary
as it happens F. Business’s fascination 4. Small group discussion source: students are to
in different with utilitarianism 5. Reporting discuss the importance
 CLO 2 levels of 6. Film analysis of the text, the author’s
CLO 3 human background, the
CLO 8 existence. document, and its
 Explain the contribution to origins
influence of and nature of theory
Filipino culture
on the way
students look
at moral
experiences
and solve
moral
dilemmas.
 Make sound
ethical
judgments
based on
principles, and
facts, and the
stakeholders
affected.

8-10 Computer/Laptop
 Describe what Unit 3. Frameworks and 1. Lecture/ Discussion Discourse about the
a moral Principles Behind our Moral 2. Document analysis principles behind our
CLO 3. experience is Disposition Frameworks 3. Group discussion moral disposition
CLO 4. as it happens E. Virtue Ethics 4. Debate, round table frameworks
in different 1. Aristotle discussion or symposium
levels of a.) Telos
human b.) Virtue as habit
existence; c.) happiness as virtue
2. St. Tomas: Natural law
 Describe the a.) The natural and its
elements of tenets
moral b.) Happiness as constitutive
 development of moral and cardinal virtues
and moral F. Kant and rights theorists
experience
3.. Kant
a.) Good will
b.) Categorical imperative
4. Different kinds of rights
a.) Legal
b.) Moral

 Make sound Unit 4. Deontology 1.Lecture/Discussion Research output that Computer/Laptop

ethical 2. Library research may be in the form of a
judgements • Duty And Agency 3. Document analysis term paper, exhibit,
based on Immanuel Kant (1724- 4. Group reporting documentary
CLO 8 principles, 1804) 5. Documentary Film presentation, diorama,
12-15 facts, and the Showing webpage, and other
stakeholders genres where students
affected. can express their ideas.
The output should trace
the evolution of the
chosen topic through at
least three periods.
16-17
 Differentiate Unit 5. What Is Virtue 1. Lecture/Discussion
CLO 1 between moral Ethics? 2. Research in Local 1. Reaction Paper Computer/Laptop
CLO 3 and non-moral libraries and Local on Virtue Ethics
CLO 5 problems. Studies Centers 2. Identify some
CLO 9  Explain the Filipino traits and
influence of categorize each
Filipino culture as virtue (middle)
on the way or vices (excess
students look or deficiency).
at moral Place them in a
experiences table.
 and solve
moral
dilemmas.
 Use ethical
frameworks or
principles to
analyze moral
experiences.
 Promote the
ethical
behavior in
modern society
at the level of
the person,
society and in
interaction
with the
environment
and other
shared
resources.

SUGGESTED READINGS AND REFERENCES

Werhane, Patricia H. Moral Imagination and Management Decision Making. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS, CLASS POLICY, AND GRADING SYSTEM

Course Book bind/compilation of all paper analysis.
Requirements Written long exam (Midterm and Finals)

Class Policy Uniform and Dress Code

a. Students should be in proper uniform/attire, wear school ID and appropriate shoes except during laboratory class.
b. PE Uniform should be worn only during PE class.
 c. Wearing of shorts, slippers, earrings for males, spaghetti strap, etc. are not allowed.

Attendance, tardiness and absenteeism

a. Minimum of 80% attendance of the total contact hours in the subject is required (checking is done every meeting).
b. A minimum of 3 consecutives absences without justifiable reasons requires a promissory note from the college guidance
coordinator.
c. 6 consecutives absences in the class mean a “drop” in the subject.
d. Failure to take the prelim exam preceded by absences means a “drop” in the subject.
e. Failure to attend regular classes after taking prelim exam means a grade of 5.0 in the subject.

Attendance, tardiness and absenteeism

a. Cheating and copying are strictly prohibited.
b. Borrowing of exam paraphernalia is NOT allowed during exams.
c. During midterm and final exams, only answer sheets, permits, calculators, pens, pencils and erasers are allowed on the desk;
other things should be deposited on a place designated by the teacher/instructor.
d. Other policies will be imposed as deemed necessary and agreed upon between the students and the subject professor.

Other Policies
a. Cell phones should be shut-off during class hours.
b. Vandalism is strictly prohibited and punishable.,
c. No smoking within the school premises.
d. Students under the influence of liquor are not allowed inside the school compound.
e. Proper grooming should be observed.
f. Other policies will be strictly imposed as contained in the student handbook.

Grading System Midterm (40%)

20%- Class Participation (Quizzes and Assignments, Prelim &Pre-exam
50%- Performance (Project and Research, Demo and Laboratories, Attendance and Behavior)
30%- Final Exam (Summative test)

Finals (60%)
20%- Class Participation (Quizzes and Assignments, Prelim &Pre-exam
50%- Performance (Project and Research, Demo and Laboratories, Attendance and Behavior)
30%- Final Exam (Summative test)
Prepared by: Checked by: Verified by: Approved by:

CHANTRA MARIE Q. FORGOSA LEIL VINCENT M. DURIA EVA C. MELON. Ed. D. DELMA P. MANILA, DPA, CESO V
Instructor Head, IAED Vice President, Academic Affairs President

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