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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

    Ethics in Human Services

  • Unit Code

    CSV2116

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Trudi COOPER

Description

This unit provides students with a range of frameworks for ethical thinking and the opportunity to work through a range of ethical principles and problems relevant to a wide range of human services contexts. The student will engage in informed ethical argument in professional controversies and be aware of the significance of ethical conduct in professional matters.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSV3116, CSV3120, CSV4116, HSA3105, YWK3207

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to dilemmas commonly found in their profession.
  2. Discuss and analyse implications of ethical perspectives for professional decision making.
  3. Identify codes of professional practice.
  4. Identify professional issues that have ethical dimensions.
  5. Outline alternative ways in which ethical issues are viewed within different philosophical traditions.

Unit Content

  1. Classifying ethical frameworks, including deontological, consequentialist and virtue-based frameworks.
  2. Ethical relativism, diversity and religious and cultural beliefs.
  3. Ethics and financial duties, sexual conduct and response to violence.
  4. Ethics and the professional relationship.
  5. Ethics, cultural identity and gender.
  6. Power and self-interest.
  7. Professional codes of ethics.
  8. The importance of ethics in a pluralist professional context.
  9. Trust, dependency and confidentiality.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Case studies and web based materials

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
JournalExercises and case studies that apply theoretical learning to professional practice50%
TestEnd of semester50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
JournalExercises and case studies that apply theoretical learning to professional practice50%
TestEnd of semester50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Hinman, L. M. (2013). Ethics: A pluralistic approach to moral theory. (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/813251700?databaseList=638

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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

    Ethics in Human Services

  • Unit Code

    CSV2116

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Trudi COOPER

Description

This unit provides students with a range of frameworks for ethical thinking and the opportunity to work through a range of ethical principles and problems relevant to a wide range of human services contexts. The student will engage in informed ethical argument in professional controversies and be aware of the significance of ethical conduct in professional matters.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSV3116, CSV3120, CSV4116, HSA3105, YWK3207

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to dilemmas commonly found in their profession.
  2. Discuss and analyse implications of ethical perspectives for professional decision making.
  3. Identify codes of professional practice.
  4. Identify professional issues that have ethical dimensions.
  5. Outline alternative ways in which ethical issues are viewed within different philosophical traditions.

Unit Content

  1. Classifying ethical frameworks, including deontological, consequentialist and virtue-based frameworks.
  2. Ethical relativism, diversity and religious and cultural beliefs.
  3. Ethics and financial duties, sexual conduct and response to violence.
  4. Ethics and the professional relationship.
  5. Ethics, cultural identity and gender.
  6. Power and self-interest.
  7. Professional codes of ethics.
  8. The importance of ethics in a pluralist professional context.
  9. Trust, dependency and confidentiality.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Case studies and web based materials

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
JournalExercises and case studies that apply theoretical learning to professional practice50%
TestEnd of semester50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
JournalExercises and case studies that apply theoretical learning to professional practice50%
TestEnd of semester50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Hinman, L. M. (2013). Ethics: A pluralistic approach to moral theory. (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/813251700?databaseList=638

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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