Course Information
SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS Credits
4SRE202Social Responsibility And Ethics (Fakülte Ortak)3+0+036

Course Details
Language of Instruction English
Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program Political Science and İnternational Relations (English)
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Compulsory
Course Delivery Method Face To Face
Objectives of the Course his course aims to provide students with the opportunity to critically examine their views on normative and applied ethics and to apply this knowledge and new perspectives to make a positive impact on their future paths. This content encompasses a set of values, traits, principles, and ethical considerations related to universal principles, diverse perspectives, normative moral theories, and major approaches. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of contributing positively to economic, environmental, and social progress, with the goal of achieving sustainable development voluntarily and acting as social responsible members of the international community. This course involves readings, online materials, and group discussions to reach course objectives.
Course Content This course is an interdisciplinary and interactive introduction to ethics and the social responsibility. Ethics refers to set of moral values and principles. Ethics and social responsibility course draws from universal norms, principles of various moral perspectives, normative theories and major philosophical approaches. This course also provides an interdisciplinary and interactive perspective to responsible and effective leadership with a widespread knowledge of social responsibility.
Course Methods and Techniques Readings, discussions, debates and presentations
Prerequisites and co-requisities None
Course Coordinator None
Name of Lecturers Asist Prof. Ahmet Özcan
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
B. MacKinnon and Fiala; Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues
The guiding framework will be based on common normative ethical theories and models of ethical decision making. There is not a unique ethical perspective in responsible decision making processes, consequently this course will provide a variety of learning objectives and outcomes.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to contribute to:
1. Insights on conducting social life in compliance with ethics
2. Social – distributive Justice and Just Practices
3. Ethical decision making models from different perspectives
4. Responsible and effective leadership models truly required by society
5. Principles, motives and functions of corporate social responsibility in compliance with ethics
6. The role of leaders against recent global concerns and complex world order
Main Readings: Barbara MacKinnon and Andrew Fiala: Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 8th ed., Stanford, CT: Cengage Learning, 2015. Russ Shafer Landau: Living Ethics: An Introduction with Readings, Oxford Uni. Press, 2018.
1 ara sınav, 1 dönem sonu sınavı, 2 ödev ve 1 sunum

Course Category
Social Sciences %100

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Mid-terms 1 % 25
Assignment 2 % 20
Final examination 1 % 40
Total
4
% 85

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Course Duration 14 3 42
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud 14 3 42
Assignments 2 5 10
Mid-terms 1 25 25
Final examination 1 25 25
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 6 144

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
NoLearning Outcomes
1 Identifying moral questions as a distinct type of question about right and wrong conduct,
2 Defending one’s own attitudes and beliefs towards key societal moral issues,
3 Identifying the various types of ethical theories and the methods of moral reasoning associated with them
4 Designing and implementing a project that addresses a community need, explaining and defending the importance of that project from a moral standpoint.
5 Applying moral reasoning to concrete ethical problems in their social context, showing an awareness of the competing values at stake and the implications of the moral decision.


Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 Introduction Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
2 Categorial Moral Reasoning (I) Kant, “God and Immortality as Postulates of Pure Practical Reason”
3 Categorial Moral Reasoning (II) Kant, “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals”
4 Consequentialist Moral Reasoning (I) Mill, “Utilitarianism”
5 Consequentialist Moral Reasoning (II) Mill, “Hedonism”
6 General Overview Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
7 Midterm Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
8 Libertarianism (I) Nozick, “The Experience Machine”
9 Libertarianism (II) Nozick, “The Rationalist of Side Constraints”
10 Contractarianism Rawls, “A Theory of Justice”
11 Relativism and Voluntarism (I) Nietzsche, “The Genealogy of the Morals”
12 Relativism and Voluntarism (II) Nietzsche, “The Genealogy of the Morals”
13 General Overview Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
14 Final Shafer-Landau, Russ (ed.), Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).


Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10
C1 5 5 5
C2 5 5 5
C3 5 5 5
C4 5 5 5 5 5
C5 5 5 5

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