School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Professional Ethics, Accountability and Integrity
  • Unit Code

    CRI3205
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Suzanne ROCK

Description

This unit explores the issue of ethical conduct in professional practice. It will provide students with the skills to analyse and discuss codes of conduct and ethical behaviours in law, policing and justice. Students will be challenged by ethical dilemmas in both theoretical and practical contexts.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed a minimum of 120 credit points.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to CRI3101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply ethical frameworks to ethical dilemmas.
  2. Critically evaluate and debate ethical dilemmas.
  3. Critique regulations such as codes of conduct for legal, policing and justice practitioners.
  4. Determine ethical issues in a global context.
  5. Evaluate the impact of misconduct and corruption in public office.
  6. Exercise critical thinking and judgement to recommend appropriate and sustainable solutions to ethical dilemmas.
  7. Review and analyse ethical challenges faced by legal practitioners, the police and criminal justice practitioners.

Unit Content

  1. Ethical challenges for the broader justice system.
  2. Ethics and global considerations.
  3. Misconduct: what should be done?
  4. The origins of ethical thought.
  5. What is ethical?

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus students attend a weekly seminar. Students will be introduced to the central concepts of the unit, and guided through the literature. Students are required to debate ethical issues and dilemmas orally and to develop critical perspectives on written sources. Off-campus students are provided with an electronic version of the seminars. All information is delivered to on-line students via ECU's LMS. Central concepts of the unit will be introduced. Ethical problem solving is an important aspect of the unit. Discussions on the LMS allow students to debate ideas and dilemmas online and to develop critical perspectives on written sources. Regular online access is required.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayEssay40%
PresentationAudio-video presentation 20%
AssignmentWorkbook40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationAudio-visual presentation20%
EssayEssay40%
AssignmentWorkbook40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Professional Ethics, Accountability and Integrity
  • Unit Code

    CRI3205
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Suzanne ROCK

Description

This unit explores the issue of ethical conduct in professional practice. It will provide students with the skills to analyse and discuss codes of conduct and ethical behaviours in law, policing and justice. Students will be challenged by ethical dilemmas in both theoretical and practical contexts.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed a minimum of 120 credit points.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to CRI3101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply ethical frameworks to ethical dilemmas.
  2. Critically evaluate and debate ethical dilemmas.
  3. Critique regulations such as codes of conduct for legal, policing and justice practitioners.
  4. Determine ethical issues in a global context.
  5. Evaluate the impact of misconduct and corruption in public office.
  6. Exercise critical thinking and judgement to recommend appropriate and sustainable solutions to ethical dilemmas.
  7. Review and analyse ethical challenges faced by legal practitioners, the police and criminal justice practitioners.

Unit Content

  1. Ethical challenges for the broader justice system.
  2. Ethics and global considerations.
  3. Misconduct: what should be done?
  4. The origins of ethical thought.
  5. What is ethical?

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus students attend a weekly seminar. Students will be introduced to the central concepts of the unit, and guided through the literature. Students are required to debate ethical issues and dilemmas orally and to develop critical perspectives on written sources. Off-campus students are provided with an electronic version of the seminars. All information is delivered to on-line students via ECU's LMS. Central concepts of the unit will be introduced. Ethical problem solving is an important aspect of the unit. Discussions on the LMS allow students to debate ideas and dilemmas online and to develop critical perspectives on written sources. Regular online access is required.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayEssay40%
PresentationAudio-video presentation 20%
AssignmentWorkbook40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationAudio-visual presentation20%
EssayEssay40%
AssignmentWorkbook40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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