...Microsoft®, Windows®, and Windows NT® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks or their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix® editorial standards and practices. Course Syllabus Course Title: GEN 480 Interdisciplinary Capstone Course BSBM.04-08.BSMB0533A Course Schedule: 04/08/08 to 05/12/08 Required Text: Paul, R., & Elder, L., (2002), Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your professional and personal life. Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall. Paul, R., & Elder, L., (2003), The Miniature guide to understanding the foundations of ethical reasoning, The Foundation for Critical Thinking, Dillon Beach, CA. Ruggiero, V., (2004), Thinking critically about ethical issues 6th edition, Burr Ridge, IL, McGraw-Hill. Electronic Resources: Note: All required text materials can be found on the GEN/480 course page. The page can be accessed through the University of Phoenix Student and Faculty Website at...
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...Critical Thinking and Ethics John Smith University of Phoenix GEN201/ Foundations for University Success January 14th 2012 Critical Thinking and Ethics Critical thinking and ethical decision making both play a vital role in both your academic and your career success as well. The relationship between critical thinking and ethics is an important one because it is a determining factor in the decisions we make and the outcome of those decisions. The definition of critical thinking is “disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded and informed by evidence”(dictionary.com, 2015). Our decisions not only have effects for us as individuals but also others and it’s important for us to weigh those effects when making any decisions. In order for us to make an informed decision and become a good critical thinker we must consider the six levels of critical thinking. Steps one and two of the critical thinking process revolve around remembering and understanding. These two steps are crucial in any critical thinking or decision making process as you must first remember and completely understand what you are reading or what you are discussing with someone. It is important to take the time out to make sure you understand because a misunderstanding can lead to a completely different outcome than the desired one. The third and fourth steps are applying and analyzing. This is the step where you can identify cause and effect of your decisions and analyze...
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...Critical Thinking and Ethics Critical thinking has a unique and complementary relationship with ethics. Critical thinking is what makes ethics come to life. In fact, it is imperative to “…develop critical-thinking skills, to recognize behavior and to understand different philosophical approaches to moral reasoning” (Manias, Monroe, & Till, 2013, Para.2). The principles and rules of critical thinking are applicable to ethical reasoning because they enable a mental process of evaluation that helps guide us to decisions based on truths and information that is verified. Ultimately, “Ethical principles mean something only when manifested in behavior. They have force only when embodied in action” (Paul & Elder, 2011, Para.5). It is only through true critical thinking analysis that our ethical reasoning will translate into exemplary forms of actions. If everyone followed the rules and guidelines of logic, there would still be a need for ethical decision making. The reason is because, “the forces that shape us and the institutions that nurture us are complex and sometimes contradictory” (Manias, Monroe, & Till, 2013, Para. 1). Much like ethics (morals, values, individual beliefs and sense of right and wrong), our logic is largely influenced by our background and experiences. Therefore it is too overwhelmed with emotion, making it unreliable for ethical decision making. If a woman finds out that the powerplant she works for is guilty of...
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...Critical Thinking and Ethics Paper Submitted by: Myron Morgan ETH/316 Ethics and Social Responsibility Denise Antoon October 11, 2015 Critical Thinking and Ethics The role that ethical reasoning plays in our lives is to highlight those human acts that enhance the well-being of others that justify our praise, as well as those that may possibly bring about physical pain or reduce the well-being of others that necessitate our expression of disapproval. Because of this, I believe that the rules and principles of critical thinking is applicable to ethical reasoning. The rules and principles of critical thinking require the thought process to be clear, fair, rational, objective and independent. The process hopes to establish an impartial investigation of the information and details in order to arrive at a justifiable conclusion. Although critical thinking (and all that goes with it) is intrinsic to the scientific method – it is a more general process than science itself and can be applied to all forms of knowledge which ask us to accept them as being true (Braithwaite, 2006). The rules and guidelines of logic does not always guarantee sound reasoning, which is why ethical decision making will always be necessary. Logic helps us to consider our reasoning and ethical decisions by processing what is being argued. Some people are against the death penalty and assume that killing someone affirms death rather than life. For an example, the scenario from the video ‘Blood Money’...
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...|Course Code: JUST 20025 |[pic] | | |Course Outlines | |Course Name (Long): | | | | | |Diversity, Values and Ethics in Public Safety | | Section I: Administrative Information |Course Name (Short): Diversity, Values and Ethics |Credit Value: 3.0 | |Program(s): Police Foundations |Credit Value Notes: | |Program Coordinator(s): Michael Lloyd |Effective Term: Jan 2011 | |Course Leader or Contact: Stephanie Dimech |Prerequisites: None | | |Corequisites: None | | ...
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...The Relationship between Critical Thinking and Ethics Cheryl B. Green Gen/201 December 7, 2015 Portia Dennis Introduction Critical Thinking According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, critical thinking is the act of using your mind to produce ideas or careful judgements. If we use this definition anytime we are producing ideas or judgements we are utilizing critical thinking. When using critical thinking we are mentally going through steps in our head to achieve our desired outcomes. The skills we use for critical thinking are observation, interpretation, analyzing, inference, evaluation, explanation and metacognition(Boyd, p85). My daughter is turning 5 in two weeks but she has been a very willful child since she could speak. We wake for school every day at the same time, and I observe her mood from the time she opens her eyes. I watch to see if she has gotten enough sleep, if she is grumpy or if she hops straight out of bed. The wheels in my head begin turning and I have to interpret her language into mine so that I don't miss any of the clues she is sending me. Once I have figured out her mood I need to analyze how I'm going to handle her. Her moods are very tricky. I suggest a particular outfit for her to wear. Most days she doesn't like what I pick out for her to wear because she feels that she is old enough to make her own decisions when it comes to wardrobe. Usually, she picks what I have laid out for her and throws it on the floor. Now we move into inference...
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...Critical Thinking and Ethics I find that the steps in critical thinking are remembering which is to remembering the key facts in the critical thinking process. The next step would be understanding which means being able to define the idea in your own words. Once you have remembering and understanding, you can move on to apply which is putting in the effort to come up with an adequate end result. Now that you have the basic knowledge of the first three steps you can move on to analyzing. Analyzing is basically breaking down information to form your analysis. With four steps applied you then begin the process of evaluating which is to evaluate the quality the efficiency of your work and give a reason for your assessment honestly. Finally, you get to creating which is coming up with your ideas from a topic established by your thoughts. To define critical thinking, I would say that the definition of critical thinking is the objective, analysis and evaluation of an issue to form a judgment. In my opinion, critical thinking is taking an issue and creating a better or more efficient solution. The best example I can come up with would have to be Martin Cooper inventor of the cell phone. He used the invention of Alexander Graham Bell the inventor of the landline telephone and came up with a device called the cell phone that allows you to talk while mobile. To come up with an invention of that sort, he would have had to have been a creative/critical thinker. He would have had to come up...
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...Critical Thinking Scenario ETH/316 November 30, 2015 Ryan Busch The scenario that I choose was the, “To Drill or Not to Drill.” The basis of the story is based on the Rocky Mountain range and if the energy companies should be allowed to drill for gas at the expense of endangering the natural wildlife that live in the ecosystem there. The story was put together by Nightline on July nineteen, two thousand and four. * What is the moral responsibility of all participants? The moral responsibility of all the participants are to decide if it is morally right to drill for gas in a natural reserve. The government should look at what the land is set aside for, not what they can acquire form the natural reserve. The Bureau of Land Management, and the BLM Field Manager is also responsible because they are the ones that process the applications to drill. The gas companies that wish to drill are responsible for drill in a safe and way that the land and animals are not affected by the drilling. * What are the stakeholders' moral failings? The failing of the US government is that they want the energy companies to be able to drill for gas to benefit from the energy and monetary value that this will provide the country. The BLM has the failing in that they rarely deny an application to drill. “How many of those applications have you rejected? Actually, percentage wise very few but I have changed many.” (The BLM Field Manager in Pinedale, 2004). The failing of the energy...
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...project enables you to demonstrate problem-solving and decision-making skills developed throughout the course. The “Qualify or Not” Ethics Case on pp. 288-290 (Ch. 4) introduces an accounting professional who faces an ethical dilemma. Your task is to apply your understanding of philosophical approaches to ethical decision making and stakeholder impact analysis to resolve the ethical dilemma detailed in the Ethics Case. Decide upon an ethical course of action the accountant could take and support that action with critical thinking and argumentation. Analyze the case using the concepts involved in stakeholder impact analysis and the philosophical approaches to ethical decision making. Explain what you think the accountant should do. You might also refer back to resources from your Critical Thinking class to refresh your memory on topics such as structuring arguments that will help your write a persuasive paper. Final Project Timeline You should budget your time wisely and work on your project throughout the course. As outlined below, some assignments in the course are designed to assist you in creating your final project. If you complete your course activities and use the feedback provided by the instructor, you will be on the right track to successfully complete your project. □ Suggested in Week One: Read The Dilemma of an Accountant Ethics Case, which is the focus of the final project, on pp. 288-290 (Ch. 4) of the textbook. □ Suggested in Week Two: Reflect on the...
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...Critical Thinking Scenarios University of Phoenix Saidou Mbosobu ETH/316 Tuesday, December 01, 2015 Critical Thinking “Blood Money” After carefully listening and watching the ABC investigating story about “Blood Money” also termed at as Black Marketing, I figured out that the Chinese are involve in an inhuman action of removing human organs like kidneys, and other human organs from executed prisoners which were later on sold to patients in a restricted Chinese military hospital. The bottom point of this inhuman action is to raise money. The participant in this critical scenario shows no moral responsibilities at all by selling human organs. There are basically two non-moral responsibilities in this scenario. First of all it is totally against any moral rules to sell human organs and secondly most of the executed criminals were wrongly executed since they military already had plans to sell the organs. The base point here is that, the participants in this scenario failed to understand that it is morally wrong to execute innocent criminals for the sake of their kidneys or without their permission. The stakeholders in this scenario show no moral feelings because they were even happy doing it as some of them are depending on it as their source of income. The medical professionals involve in this act shows no moral obligations or ethical standard by transplanting these organs even when they knew that they were wrong and had a position as medical doctors to say it is unethical and...
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...Critical Thinking Student’s Name University Affiliation Critical Thinking Analyze your chosen scenario from a critical thinking perspective. In this assignment, we are going to focus on the Unocal in Burma. Unocal is a company that was established in California in 1890 to help in the development of the oil fields in the country. However, the company highly failed in its obligations since, by 1990s, the oil fields in the United States were performing very poorly almost reaching depletion and the company turned its back and started to invest in other oil firms in the United States. This led it to invest in Burma since it was attracted by the cheap labor, availability of natural gas resources, political stability and also the connection that the region offered to other international markets. They managed to start their business in the area of laying down a pipeline wit the government providing them with security. Their business was however associated with violation of human rights, relocating individuals forcefully, forced labor as well as physical torture of the residents. What is the moral responsibility of all participants? The company first of all given the fact that they had been granted the right to conduct business in the country had the moral obligation to be socially responsible. The state provided them with a platform to do their business and make profits and in return, they should have given back to the society through corporate social responsibility. The...
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...Critical Thinking and Ethics Krystal Borrego ETH/316 January 12, 2015 Tim Tietjen Critical Thinking and Ethics When it comes to human organs and individuals buying them from prisoners that have been executed to survive one would have to ask themselves if they are making an ethical decision. Buying and selling human organs is illegal in the United States yet it is happening right now as we enter into the year 2015, a lot of critical thinking has gone into this industry and made a world wide business out of it. Although China was the leading source of this crude and horrid operation, the buying and selling of human organs is happening right here on American soil. Blood Money Analysis Do the leaders of China and the prisoners understand what ethical decision making really is? Ordering an execution and then knowingly preparing the bodies for a liver transplant is something that you or I would say it unethical but this just goes to show that everyone has different decision making skills. How these individuals apart of this business were raised and taught ethics is very different from how we were taught here in the United States. Some would say that because it is a foreign country that they have different beliefs and find no wrong doing in this exchange of organs, their critical thinking was done on their own ethical template. Providing a perfectly healthy organ from an executed prisoner to help save someone’s life is completely ethically correct to them. Critical Thinking...
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...In order to properly describe the relationship between critical thinking and ethics, one must first understand what they are. Per Michael Scriven and Richard Paul, “Critical thinking is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.” Whereas, ethics, as defined by the dictionary, is “a branch of philosophy dealing with values (morals) relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.” Per Mary Ellen Guffey, there are five steps to critical thinking. Those steps are as follows: Identify and clarify the problem, Gather information, Evaluate the evidence, Consider alternatives and implications, Choose and implement the best alternative. When applying these steps with ethics, this is how you know that the decision you make is sound. It is without bias and/or prejudice. It is a fair decision not leaning to one side or another side, but a decision that is made for the good as a whole. When I was evaluated for my Ethical Lens, my blind spot was determined to be an Unrealistic Role Expectations. Meaning that I rely on others to be virtuous not taking into consideration the probability that people can fail, regardless of their intentions. My preferred ethical lens is Reputation. This means that I listen to my intuition to determine...
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...stressful in a group setting for the less outgoing students. Low self-esteem and stress were the major factors for the groupthink these scenarios. As an adult, I also have experienced groupthink when asked to get together with the other 3 ladies in accounting come up with a better flow and more up-to-date accounting in conjunction with production and sales. The company has been growing and evolving rapidly and we needed to be better prepared for a heavier workload. Between the four of us, my co-worker and I being the there less time (both at least 2 years) and significantly younger than the other two that have been there 8+ years we were all expected to come to a common ground for duties and work flow. Quickly the two older women took over the decision making and didn’t consider much of what we had to say or had to bring to the table or prior experience. I suppose I am guilty of submitting to groupthink? 2) Review the steps in the rational decision making model (especially 1-4). This model, of course, applies to individuals and might be difficult to apply to group decision making situations. If, however, you were a juror, how might you apply these steps to your own deliberations? If I were a juror, I would first identify what decision in particular I needed to make in regards to the case. Then I would consider all other possible aspects and scenarios of the case. Following that I would...
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...reasoning usually consist on ideas that are somewhat measured by compassion along with what is thought of as justice or sufficient. Critical thinking paints a clear and cut picture of a situation while ethical reasoning is measuring right or wrong. Critical thinking involves using logic to arrive at a conclusion without regards to morals or virtues. Ethical reasoning is used to arrive at morally sound decisions. The Blood Money scenario presents the ethical dilemma of the black market human organ transplant operation in China. Logically speaking, it is a medically sound practice to transplant donated organs to qualified patients in order to improve their quality of life. However, the proliferation of the Chinese government to procure the organs of condemned prisoners for the sake of profiting from an illegal and unregulated practice is morally reprehensible. Making ethical choices involves critical thinking abilities when addressing large populations or even small groups. The solutions to a big problem may resolve the issue for a majority of the people, but what is good for the majority may not be the solution for the minority. Ethical reasoning and critical thinking will leave open the need to question the past, and ask how problems can be corrected for the greater good of everyone involved. Reference: Ethics Applied, 7e Chapter 6-11: Ethics Applied, 7e ISBN: 9781256825357 Author: Nicholas Manias Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc....
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