COURSE SYLLABUS

Course Code: ITE411 Course Title: Ethics Pre-requisite: Credits Units 3

Course Description:

Ethics deals with principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the person, society, and in interaction with the environment and other shared
resources. (CMO 20 s 2013)

Morality pertains to the standards of right and wrong that an individual originally picks up from the community. The course discusses the context and the
principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of individual, society, and interaction with the environment and other shared resources. The course
also teaches students to make moral decisions by using dominant moral frameworks and by applying a seven-step moral reasoning model to analyze and solve
moral dilemmas.

The course is organized according to the three (3) main elements of the moral experience: (a) agent, including context – cultural, communal, and environmental;
(b) the act; and (c) reason or framework (for the act).

This course includes the mandatory topic on taxation.

UNIVERSITY VISION
A leading Higher Education Institution that prepares visionary and ethical leaders who shall create positive impact to society.

UNIVERSITY MISSION
Universidad de Manila is committed to provide equal opportunities by developing the learner’s knowledge, skills, and values, through quality education and dynamic technology-driven
systems, in a diverse yet inclusive environment for learning, research, and community engagement.

CORE VALUES
 QUALITY AND EXCELLENT EDUCATION
  ACADEMIC FREEDOM
 ETHICAL STANDARDS
 EMPOWERMENT
 PEOPLE ORIENTED

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY VISION

A leader in engineering and technological education, molding its students to their fullest potentials with the aid of state-of-the-art instructional paraphernalia & teaching methods, as
well as an active participant in the continuous refinement process of the Engineering & Technology curricula in the close collaboration with other higher educational institutions
industries, and the government.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY VISION:

A leader in engineering and technological education, molding its students to their fullest potentials with the aid of state-of-the-art instructional paraphernalia & teaching methods, as
well as an active participant in the continuous refinement process of the Engineering & Technology curricula in the close collaboration with other higher educational institutions
industries, and the government.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MISSION

Pursuit of excellence in the areas of engineering & technology to produce skilled and globally competitive Engineers and other technical professionals who are imbued with a
pioneering spirit and Christian attributes, and cognizant of their social responsibility put to work through meaningful community extension programs, and their social responsibility put
to work through meaningful community extensions programs, and their paramount role in nation building.
.

INSTITUTIONAL GRADUTE ATTRIBUTES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

UDM Graduate Attributes Institutional Graduate Attributes and Learning Outcomes
A UDM Graduate Shall:
1. Professional Competence Demonstrate understanding and mastery of the fundamental knowledge and skills required for effective professional practice in the field of
specialization.
2. Critical Thinking Problem Solving Skills Exercise critical and creative thinking in providing solutions to discipline-related problems
3. Productivity Contribute to city and nation-building and development through application of new technology
4. Communication Skills Apply effective communication skills, both orally and in writing.
5. Interpersonal Skills Work effectively in multi-disciplinary and multicultural teams
6. Collaboration Allows team members to solve problems together, thus expediting the process of finishing a task
7. Research-minded Display skills to assess and apply its insights effectively and the ability to identify appropriate sources of evidence and interpret potentially complex and
conflicting findings in appropriate specific practice settings
8. Lifelong Learning Utilize lifelong learning skills in pursuit of personal development and in professional practice excellence
 9. Social and Ethical Responsibility Holds personal values and beliefs as ethical professional consistent with Filipino family values, industry-desired values and global citizen values
Nationalism
10. Nationalism Serves others willingly as a way towards contributing a nation building and participates in influencing public policy towards the promotion of just society.

PROGRAM INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course the students should be able to:
Knowledge
1. Use basic concepts across the domains of knowledge.
2. Work effectively in a group
3. Reflect critically on shared concerns.
4. Demonstrate critical, analytical and creative thinking.
5. Apply UDM Core Values in their personal and professional endeavors as effective and responsible Citizens.
6. Appreciate the complexity of the human condition.
7. Interpret the human experience from various perspectives.
8. Manage one’s knowledge, skills and values for responsible and productive living.
9. Organize one’s self for lifelong learning.
10. Examine the contemporary world from both Philippine and global perspectives.
11. Advocate respect for human rights.
12. Take responsibility for knowing and being Filipino.
13. Contribute personally and meaningfully to the country’s development.
14. Create solutions to problems in various fields.
15. Generate innovative practices and solutions guided by ethical standards.
16. Make decisions based on moral norms and imperatives.

COURSE INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course the students should be able to:
1. Students will be able to Explain the nature and purpose of Ethics, Understand the material and formal objects of ethics and differentiate Morality and Etiquette.
2. Differentiate the human act to act of man, identify the elements of determining morality and understand the criteria for moral judgement.
3. Analyze crucial qualities of the Filipino moral identity in their own moral experiences and explain culture, moral behavior and the cultural relativism.
4. Develop and discuss the definition of conscience, explain conscience as subjective norm of morality and critique the various concepts of conscience.
5. Explain the role of mental frames in moral experience, classify the dominant mental frames and articulate what virtue ethics, critique virtue ethics and make use of virtue ethics
and rights theory.
6. Understand and articulate the rights theory, differentiate a legal from a moral right and critique Virtue ethics and make use of rights theory, and critique using rights theory the
different types of moral issues
7. Articulate what utilitarianism is, critique utilitarianism and make use of utilitarianism, evaluate the moral and social obligation of paying taxes, and assess the ‘pros and cons’ of
taxation in the Philippines.
8. Discuss what justice and fairness are, critique and make use of justice and fairness, discuss and analyze the state and Citizens, identify the important moral challenges of
globalization, appreciate and evaluate the Filipino First Policy and describe and discuss the religion and ethics

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Student Intended Learning Outcomes (SILO) Content Asynchronous Synchronous Assessment

F/F Virtual

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be

able to:  Student Activity: Share  Lecture  Lecture  Sharing
 The Nature, Purpose your moral experience.
 Explain the nature and purpose of Ethics of Ethics When do you say that it  Lecture discussion on  Lecture
 , Understand the material and formal objects of Ethics is a moral experience? the difference between discussion
and  Quiz on the reading
 The Material and moral and non-moral on the materials
 differentiate Morality and Etiquette standards difference
Formal Objects of
Ethics between
 Class discussion: what moral and  Recitation
rules do you find non-moral
 Morality, Etiquette constricting? Why standards
and the Law rules?
 Class
discussion:
what rules
do you find
constricting
 ? Why
rules?

 Quiz on the reading

materials
 Differentiate the human act to act of man, identify the  Human act and the act  Modules/Reading  Lecture/discussion  Lecture and
elements of determining morality of man Materials interactive
 and understand the criteria for moral  Elements Determining discussion  Recitation
judgement Morality  Completion of activities
 Film
 The Moral Agent Viewing

 Criteria for Moral

Judgement

  Analyze crucial qualities of the Filipino moral identity in  Quiz on the reading
their own moral experiences materials
 Cultural Relativism  Modules/Reading  Lecture and
 explain culture, moral behavior cultural relativism.  Asian and Filipino Materials interactive
Morality  Lecture/discussion
discussion  Recitation

 Family Obligations,
Moral Character  Completion of activities  Lecture/discussion
Development  Lecture and
interactive
discussion

 Quiz on the reading

materials
 Develop and discuss the definition of conscience  Feelings and reason
 explain conscience as subjective norm of morality and
critique the various concepts of conscience.  Conscience  Recitation
 Modules/Reading
 Reasoning and
Materials and
Impartiality  Lecture/discussion  Lecture and
completion of activities
interactive
 Moral Courage discussion
  Explain the role of mental frames in moral experience   Quiz on the reading
 classify the dominant mental frames and articulate materials
what virtue ethics critique virtue ethics and make use  Moral Theories  Lecture and
of virtue ethics and rights theory. interactive
 Reason and Will  Modules/Reading  Lecture/discussion
discussion  Recitation
Materials and
 Virtue Ethics- Aristotle completion of activities

• Quiz on the reading

materials

• Graded Group Report:

Students will form
groups of 3-5.
 Understand and articulate the rights theory
 differentiate a legal from a moral right and critique  • Each group will be
Virtue ethics  Group discussion on  Group
assigned a Latin
 make use of rights theory Kant and rights discussion
American country to
 critique using rights theory the different types of moral theorists on Kant and
rights report on.
issues
theorists
 Facilitate an interactive
 Kant and Rights
discussion on what is
Theorists
Legal is not always  Facilitate
Moral an
 Modules/Reading interactive
Materials and discussion
 Analysis of a case using on what is
completion of activities
rights theory Legal is not
always
Moral
 Group Dynamic
discussions
  Analysis of
a case using
rights
theory

 Group
Dynamic
discussions
   Articulate what utilitarianism is critique utilitarianism • Quiz on the reading
and make use of utilitarianism  Utilitarianism materials
 evaluate the moral and social obligation of paying  Lecture/discussion
taxes • Graded Group Report:
 State and Citizens:  Modules/Reading Students will form
 assess the ‘pros and cons’ of taxation in the
Taxation Materials and groups of 3-5. Each
Philippines.
completion of activities group will be assigned an
Asian country to
research & report on.
 Lecture/discussion
 • These groups will
deliver 10minute
 Lecture and presentations on the
interactive contemporary
discussions foreign & economic
policies of their
respective countries.

  Discuss what justice and fairness are critique and make

use of justice and fairness  Moral Obligation and
 discuss and analyze the state and Citizens Fair Share
 identify the important moral challenges of
globalization
 appreciate and evaluate the Filipino First Policy and  Filipino First Policy
describe and discuss the religion and ethics
 Globalization and its
Ethical Challenges  Modules/Reading  Lecture/discussion  Lecture and
Materials and interactive
 Millennials and completion of activities discussions
filinnials: Ethical
challenges and
responses

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
1. Online/Virtual/Synchronous Learning Environment: Real-time with a live instructor facilitating the training. Using Google Meet or Zoom Meeting. Everyone logs in at a set time and can
 communicate directly with the teacher and with each other. Course length is usually fixed for a specific amount of time - from a single session to several weeks or months.
2. Asynchronous Learning Environment: Using university LMS Platform - Moodle. An online learning in which students learn from instruction—such as prerecorded video lessons or gamebased
learning tasks that students complete on their own—that is not being delivered in person or in real time.
3. Using Knowledge-centered Learning Environment.
CLASSROOM POLICIES:
A. ONLINE/VIRTUAL CLASSROOM:
1. Find a quiet place free of distractions.
2. Have your device ready.
3. Join the class on time.
4. Use your full-name when you join the class.
5. Mute yourself except when you have the floor.
6. Leave the video on when instructed.
7. Raise your hand for permission to speak.
8. Use chat box to share ideas and to ask questions related to the lesson.
9. If you miss the live online class, watch the recorded video at your own time before asking any inquiry.
10. All inquiry in line with the subject should be on the GROUP CHAT ONLY. Any inquiry sent thru a private message will NOT BE ENTERTAINED.
11. Any personal reason/communication which will give sensitive information can be sent thru private messages. Examples of which but not limited to the following (Testing Positive in Covid;
Death in the Family; Sickness of any Immediate family member)
12. All inquiry should be limited until 5:00 pm only. No messages beyond 5:00 pm
13. Use appropriate language.
14. Use correct grammar and spelling.
15. Cheating will not be tolerated in any form, in any requirement. At the very least, the questionable work will merit a grade of 0 and will be reported to the appropriate
authorities, as provided for by the Student Handbook. Duplicate projects/hands-on activities will merit penalties for both the student who copied and the student from
whom the work was copied.
16. Be respectful.
17. Be kind and professional
18. Additional policies may be implemented by the instructor with due discussion with the class when the need arises.
B. FACE TO FACE ATTENDANCE POLICIES:
1. For 3-unit Lecture/1-unit Laboratory subject:
2. Absences not exceeding to 20% or not exceeding to 12 hours (maximum of 4 meetings)
3. 2 incidences of tardiness are equivalent to 1 absent
4. 1 incidence of tardiness after the instructor has already checked the attendance
C. FACE TO FACE ON MAKE-UP REQUIREMENTS:
1. Allowed for the following reason(s):
a. Illness or injury caused by accident supported by a medical certificate
b. Death of a family member (grandparent, parent, guardian, sibling, spouse, or child)
c. Force majeure
2. Excuse letter within five (5) working days to comply via e-mail.
 3. Failure to comply means a score of 0.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
 Exams (Midterm Exam – Chapter 01-04) (Final Exam – Chapter 5-8)
 Quizzes
 Project (Research Paper)

GRADING SYSTEM:
Student’s grade is determined by the results of his entire performance in this course which includes quizzes, recitations or participation, assignments, reports, term papers and major examinations.

Mid-Term Grade: (Weight = 40%)

Class Standing = 60% (Quizzes, recitation, assignment, reports, term papers, practice set, report, and attendance)
Mid-Term Examination: = 40% / 100% (Mid-Term Grade)

Pre-Final Grade: (Weight = 60%)

Class Standing = 60% (Quizzes, recitation, assignment, reports, term papers, practice set, report, and attendance)

Final Examinations: = 40% / 100%

MG (40%) + PFG (60%) = Final Grade

1.00 = 98 – 100% 2.00 = 86 – 88%

1.25 = 95 – 97% 2.25 = 83 – 85% 3.00 = 75 – 76%
1.50 = 92 – 94% 2.50 = 80 – 82% 5.00 = Failed
1.75 = 89 – 91% 2.75 = 77 – 79% INC = Incomplete
RESOURCES
REFERENCES:
o Books and E-books
o Internet Tutorials
o Multimedia Presentation

REFERENCES
Books and E-books
 Cornejo, Ebia, Panganiban (2018). Encouraging Ethical Reflections, ETHICS FOR BEGINNERS. Manila City, Philippines: MindShapers.
 Palma-Angeles, A. (2014) Cultural Drivers Corruption in Business and Governance.
 Angeles, A., Azada, R. (2011). Medicine Prices, Controls and the Philippine Pharmaceutical Industry.
  Kohlberg, L. Essays on Moral Development, Vol 1 The Philosophy of Moral Development.
 Que, N., S.J. Notes on Moral Deliberation, Introduction to course notes for PH104: Foundations of Moral Value. Ateneo de Manila University.
 Rae, S. A Model for Moral Decision Making, Chapter 16, Beyond Integrity
 Kant, I. Categorical Imperative, in Ground Work of the Metaphysics of Morals

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