100 Point Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) (MC-ARTPAE_INFSPC_2)

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Overview

This program is offered by the Centre in Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and is available through the philosophy discipline in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies in the Faculty of Arts.

Organisational change, political change, wars, globalisation, new technologies and practices, corporate collapses, corruption, scandals in the health and research sectors, environmental disasters, conflicts of interest, as well as the ever-present potential for injustice and disregard for individual human beings that lies within the bureaucratic and hierarchical structures of institutions, all raise distinctive and pressing issues of practice and policy. Finding ethically good and and practical ways of responding to these issues requires a thorough understanding of both the ethical and the empirical aspects of the situation.

Completion of this program will help graduates to be more aware of the ethical dimensions of all the issues they encounter in their professional lives, and also to be able to reflect on and analyse key ethical concepts and arguments in their field of specialisation, enabling them to contribute to policy discussion and development in a wide range of professional, institutional and industry settings. There is scope for students to follow their own interests, with a substantial thesis component and specialisations such as the ethics of health care, computing, business, politics and criminal justice; as well as the broad themes of bioethics and global justice.

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.

Last updated: 30 January 2024

Structure

100 point program

Duration: 1 year full-time / up to 2 years part-time

two compulsory subjects (25 points)
minor thesis parts 1 and 2 (50 points total)
elective subjects (25 points)

Capstone Requirement:

All students are required to complete the Capstone Requirement for the program. Students must complete the following capstone -

Capstone: PHIL90038 Applied Ethics Thesis Part 1 and PHIL90039 Applied Ethics Thesis Part 2 (50 points total)

Purpose: To conceptualise, plan and execute a substantial, independent, research-based project in the form of a minor thesis in applied or professional ethics, demonstrating high level skills in interdisciplinary and comparative research, analysis and critique, underpinned by a thorough understanding of academic protocol and presentation.

For policies that govern this degree, see Academic Services Policy in the University Melbourne Policy Framework. Students also should also refer to information in the Student Policy Directory.

Subject Options

Compulsory subjects

25 points

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
PHIL90004	Ethical Theory and Practice	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
PHIL90032	Inequality and Public Policy	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Thesis Subject

50 points total

Please note: the thesis requires two consecutive semesters of enrolment.

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
PHIL90038	Applied Ethics Thesis Part 1	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	25
PHIL90039	Applied Ethics Thesis Part 2	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	25

Elective Subjects

25 points

Please note: the program coordinator may give permission for graduate subjects other than those listed as elective subjects, provided that:

the subject/s is at an appropriate level;
they are relevant to the program; and
permission to enrol has been given by the program/subject coordinator

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
ASIA90001	Human Rights in Southeast Asia	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM90007	Genocide, State Crime and the Law	Not available in 2019	12.5
CRIM90008	Sovereignty, Justice, Indigenous Peoples	Not available in 2019	12.5
CRIM90011	Research and Criminal Justice Governance	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM90016	Doing Structural Justice: Clinic	July (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM90017	Violence, Trauma and Reconciliation	May (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
DEVT90040	Gender Issues in Development	July (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
GEND90006	Gender, Globalisation and Development	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
GEND90007	Rethinking Rights and Global Development	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
HPSC90012	Trust, Communication and Expertise	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
PHIL90005	Applied Ethics: Directed Research	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
PHIL90009	Violence, War and Terrorism	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
PHIL90010	Global Justice	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
PHIL90025	Issues in Bioethics	Not available in 2019	12.5
PHIL90027	The Moral Limits of Markets	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
POLS90038	Human Rights	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
PUBL90014	Legal Issues in Media and Publishing	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
PHIL90029	Climate Ethics	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
PHIL90041	The Ethics of Gaming	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Links

http://shaps.unimelb.edu.au/

Last updated: 30 January 2024

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