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Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) (MC-ARTPAE) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
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About this course
- Overview
- Entry and participation requirements
- Attributes, outcomes and skills
- Course structure
- Majors, minors and specialisations
- Further study
Coordinator
Associate Professor Christopher Cordner
Email: ccordner@unimelb.edu.au
Contact
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Currently enrolled students:
- Contact Stop 1
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
Future students:
- Further information: http://graduate.arts.unimelb.edu.au/
- Contact: 'make an enquiry' on http://graduate.arts.unimelb.edu.au/degrees/17-master-of-arts-professional-and-applied-ethics
Intended learning outcomes
Students who complete the Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) should:
- better appreciate the ethical dimensions of all they do in their professional lives;
- understand and analyse complex ethical issues;
- detect ambiguity, vagueness, inconsistency, and other weaknesses in the expressions of ideas;
- distinguish different types of question, claim or argument, and respond to them appropriately;
- distinguish what is relevant to a given issue from what is not; and
- see ways in which an argument or explanation could be improved.
Generic skills
Students who successfully complete the Masters should have:
- a developed capacity for creative thinking ;
- a developed capacity for critical thinking;
- a greater capacity to think, write and communicate clearly and effectively; and
- a greater appreciation of the need always to remember that each of us is a human being before s/he is a professional.
Graduate attributes
Graduates in the MAPAE should, through the core program of the degree along with a wide range of electives, develop a capacity to think more deeply, sensitively and clearly about the ethical dimensions of their life with others, not only in professional contexts but also in various personal and social contexts. Graduates should have:
- Acquired some understanding of the main themes of philosophical exploration of ethics across two millennia;
- Acquired a capacity to relate those themes to their own professional and personal lives;
- Developed a deeper appreciation of the ethical dimensions of issues that arise in their professional and personal lives;
- Developed a greater appreciation of the increasing international and global implications even of local ethical issues in their personal and professional lives;
- Developed their capacity, both verbally and in writing, to articulate their thinking about ethical issues lucidly and in-depth.
Last updated: 23 April 2024