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Longer Applied Ethics Thesis (PHIL90017)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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- Assessment
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Contact information
Semester 1
Email: ccordner@unimelb.edu.au
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**Please note: this subject is not available to students who enrol in the Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) (MC-ARTPAE) after 2014. If intending to complete a thesis, current students should enrol in PHIL90036 Professional Ethics Thesis Part 1 and PHIL90037 Professional Ethics Thesis Part 2.**
The thesis proides students with the opportunity to research, design and write an original thesis on a topic in applied ethics. Students will also acquire research skills and an understanding of the methods required for advanced research in philosophy.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who successfully project this subject will:
- have developed an understanding of the fundamentals of philosophical argumentation and theory;
- be able to demonstrate a substantial knowledge of one or more areas in the study of applied ethics;
- understand the theoretical sources of the key concepts in these areas of study;
- have developed research and analysis skills to enable further study in the area of applied ethics at a higher academic level;
- understand the application of these concepts to their professional field or study area;
- present theories and arguments concisely and critically.
Generic skills
Students who successfully project this subject will:
- 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;
- see ways in which an argument or explanation could be improved.
Last updated: 3 November 2022