Overview
Description
Nature of morals and ethics and their role in government and policy, especially in the American republic.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Core
CO12, CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- discuss the various definitions of ethics and corruption and how and why those definitions vary across time and context; show insight (from previous coursework) or new knowledge in identifying the gaps in the previous literature with the definition of ethics and corruption.
- articulate ethical principles through critical, written analysis and synthesis of corruption both in theoretical terms but also in practice. Students will articulate what makes a particular action ethical based upon the theoretical definition and their own ethical values.
- synthesize and integrate modern day examples into theoretical constructs of ethics.
- identify the multiple ethical interests at stake in the different regions of the world, including discussing how corruption manifests itself in a variety of regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S.; explain the different causes and consequences of corruption in these areas of the world by applying observational and experimental approaches.
- analyze the issues that confront scholarly attempts to measure corruption; discuss why measurement is so critical and how our measures end up structuring the way we view the problem.
- evaluate anticorruption reforms; discuss how such reforms are possible but why they are so difficult to achieve.
- propose and critique government reforms and discuss how they change behavior by altering the incentives and disincentives for various types of corrupt behavior.