Ethical Issues And Normative Perspectives (EIN)
Description:
Ethical Issues and Normative Perspectives: An upper level course that analyzes ethical issues from a variety of perspectives that provide norms of justice and well-being and guide moral reasoning. The normative frameworks employed in the course will include one or more perspectives from the Christian theological tradition.
Guidelines for courses:
- The approach and content of this course must be chosen primarily for junior and senior students.
- The course must be constructed around issues of contemporary ethical concern and of relevance to students' study at St. Olaf.
- Whatever its disciplinary basis, the course must integrate the disciplinary content and approach with the consideration of ethical issues and the analysis of normative perspectives.
- Ethical analysis is central to the course and should have both a practical and a theoretical dimension to it: it should be practical in its focus upon current issues; it should be theoretical in developing an understanding of moral reasoning itself.
- The normative perspectives employed in the course must be drawn from a combination of the Christian theological tradition and other traditions, or from the Christian theological tradition alone. The normative perspectives may be historical, contemporary, or a combination of both.
- The course must show that there are alternative normative frameworks for critical and constructive ethical reasoning.
Intended learning outcomes for students:
Students will demonstrate:
- Understanding of particular normative perspectives, including at least one from a Christian tradition.
- The ability to see similarities and differences in the ethical reasoning of two or more normative perspectives.
- The ability to analyze current ethical issues from two or more normative perspectives.
Ethical Issue and Normative Perspectives requirement complete description - includes committee comments on course guidelines to assist instructors in preparing proposals for GE accreditation
