Course: Ethics

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Course title Ethics
Course code KVS/RETK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Konečný Karel, doc. PhDr. CSc.
  • Špiner Dušan, ThMgr. Ph.D.
  • Hubálek Tomáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The contents of Ethics course is to intermediate the quality of ethical thinking to students and to bring them to a point where they themselves feel the need for more complex guidance in issues, which occasionally provoke them, and the solution of which is a base for value and success in their lives. Ethics does not only deal with average standards of behaviour. It is more about searching for something that is correct and good, and how to live the best possible way. This obviously does not mean adopting rigidly moral perspective in the sense of rejecting all those who do not agree with certain specific codec, but emphasizing that we wish to find fundamental values, according to which we can live, provided that they will lead to justice and happiness.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
  • Homework for Teaching - 20 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 20 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The role and aim of ethical education in the subject is to raise the quality of moral reasoning of students, to provoke their need for more systematic knowledge of problems influencing the values and happiness of their lives. One of the conditions is creation of the atmosphere of openness, warmth, striving for good. It is important for the students to be able to express their own experience, to reflect and understand the values in their behaviour and activities. The aim of ethics is not only to inform students about moral norms but also to help them in forming their own opinions and to acquire adequate approaches to the problems. The development of social skills is necessary in this process.
Student teaches know base ethical problems. His knowledge will qualified apply in definite region life, on definite enclosure practice and differentiate inquire into problems special ethics. Teacher ethics knows sensitive respond to needs pupil, situation in classes, and at the same time exert his possibility and talent.
Prerequisites
Student allows understand definite reality, meaning and sense ethical fundamentals, to create on a given subject personal opinion and master adequate bearings and behaviors. Groundwork is qualification adoption in class condition on application adoption matters in real life

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark

Attendance at seminars, work with the recommended literature
Recommended literature
  • Etzioni, A. (1995). Morální dimenze ekonomiky. Praha: Victoria publishing.
  • Lencz, L., Križová, O. (2005). Etická výchova - metodický materiál 1-3.. Praha: Luxpres.
  • Špiner, D. (2004). Nástin křesťanské etiky a jejího významu v hledání smyslu života. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého.
  • Thompson, M. (2004). Přehled etiky. Praha: Portál.


Study plans that include the course
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