Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
In addition to part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table) this portion gives
further specific details regarding the course.
Course No:
HSS F343
Course Title:
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Instructor- in- charge: REENA CHERUVALATH
1. Scope & Objective:
- To provide a formal acquaintance with the ethical concepts and frameworks.
- To enable the students to recognize the codes of ethics and moral values relevant to the
experience of being a professional.
- To develop among the students an understanding of various ethical issues relating to professions
in general and business, management, education, engineering and computers in particular.
- To enable the students to develop the awareness needed to understand the role of moral
reasoning in the framework of professional life with the help of real time case studies.
2. Textbook:
Boatright, John R., Ethics and the Conduct of Business, Pearson Education, Indian Reprint,
2003
3. Reference books:
Rowan, John, and Zinaich, Jr., Ethics for the Professions, Wadsworth, 2003
Harris, Charles, E. Jr., Michael S. Pritchard, Michael J. Rabins, Engineering Ethics: Concepts
& Cases, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1995
Erwann, M.David, Williams, Masy B and Gutierrez, Claudio, Computers, Ethics, and Society,
Oxford University Press, 1990
Langford, Duncan (ed.), Internet Ethics, Macmillan Press Ltd, 2000
Richard T. DeGeorge, Business Ethics, Pearson Education, 2011
Andrew Crane & Dirk Matten, Business Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2011
4. Course Plan:
Lec.No. Learning Objectives
Topics to be covered
2-3
Rowan, Introduction;
Rowan, Ch.1
6
7
Utilitarian Theory
Sekhar, Ch. 1
Text Book, Ch. 2;
Rowan, Ch.1
Deontological Theory
Virtue Theory
10-11
12
Rowan, Ch. 3
13
14
15
16
17-19
20-21
22
23-24
25-26
27
28-30
31-32
33-34
35
36
37-38
Reference Material
Text Book, Ch. 8, 10
Rowan, Ch. 6
Rowan, Ch. 6
Rowan, Ch. 6
Reference Material
Reference Material
Langford, Ch. 5
38-39
40
Communication
To understand the ethical impacts of Internet and Society
internet on a society
To analyze moral implications in Case-Studies
concrete situations
5. Evaluation Scheme:
EC Evaluation
No. Component
1
Test I
Duration
Weightage
Date, Time
60 Minutes
15
23/09/16, Friday, OB
4.00-5.00 PM
28/10/16, Friday, CB
4.00-5.00 PM
Test II
60 Minutes
15
3
4.
Seminar
Group Discussions/
group activities
Comprehensive
Examination
15-20 minutes
10
10+10
Langford, Ch. 1
3 Hours
40
Remarks
OB
12/12/16 (AN)
CB