Graduate Certificate in Ethics
The Graduate Certificate in Ethics is a specialised programme for those who have already completed a degree in a field other than Philosophy and who wish o upgrade their qualifications specifically in the area of Ethics. The Certificate may be of particular interest to those working in administrative and policy making areas of the public sector, industry, business and the professions, where there is increasing concern with ethical practice.
The Certificate is a 12 point programme offering students an integrated set of units that explore ethical issues arising in the sphere of individual professional conduct and in the wider realm of social concern relating to the practice of business, healthcare, the new technologies and the environment.
Depending on the choice and availability of units, the Certificate can be completed in either one semester full-time or part-time over one year. Units are available in the internal and external mode.
Required Unit
Moral and Political Philosophy (PHL219)
Elective Units (8 Points):
Two units chosen from the following list.Students may not take both H201 Existence and Freedom, and H277 Life, Death and Meaning for credit to the Graduate Certificate in Ethics.
Ethics in Practice (PHL272)
Love and Friendship (PHL215) Existence and Freedom (PHL201)
Life, Death, and Meaning (PHL277)
Environmental Ethics (STP206)
Please refer to the 2009 Handbook
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