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POLSC401: Ethics and Public Policy
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Unit 1: The Role of Ethics and Morality in Politics
1.1: What Does "Ethics" Mean?
1.2: Ethical Oversight in Domestic Politics
1.3: Ethical Oversight in International Politics
1.1: What Does Ethics Mean?
Moral Dilemmas, Moral Truth, and Moral Knowledge
The Good Life: Virtue and Well-Being
Mores, Laws, Morality, and Ethics
1.2: Ethical Oversight in Domestic Politics
Government Accountability Office
Government and the Private Sector
1.3: Ethical Oversight in International Politics
Overview of the Human Rights Framework
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
A Theory of Justice
Unit 2: Theoretical Frameworks for Ethical Analysis
2.1: Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks
2.2: The Common Good Approach
2.3: The Fairness or Justice Approach
2.4: The Utilitarian Approach
2.5: The Virtue Approach
2.6: The Rights Approach
Unit 2 Assessment
2.1: Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks
Moral Foundations Theory
Ethical Principles and Responsible Decision-Making
2.2: Virtue Ethics
Aristotle's Virtue Ethics
The Good Life: Virtue and Well-Being
On Virtue Ethics
2.3: Deontology
Kant's Ethics
Kant's Categorical Imperative
The Duties of the Categorical Imperative
2.4: The Utilitarian Approach
Classical Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice
Utilitarian Ethics
Unit 3: Individual Liberty, Public Safety, and Immigration
3.1: The First Amendment
3.2: The Second Amendment
3.3: Punishment of Criminal Offenders and the Criminal Justice System
3.4: The Legalization of Drugs
3.5: Illegal Immigration
3.1: Individual Liberty
Democracy and Majority Rule
3.2: Freedom of Speech and the Press
Freedom of Speech and the Press
What is the Point of Free Speech?
Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)
3.3: Punishment of Criminal Offenders and the Criminal Justice System
The Ethics of Power and Authority
What Exposes African Americans to Police Violence?
The Case of Correctional Institutions
3.4: The Second Amendment
The Path to Gun Control in America Goes through Political Philosophy
The Public's Health and the Social Meaning of Guns
3.5: Illegal Immigration
Unauthorized Aliens in the United States
International Migration at a Time of Crisis
Unit 3 Assessment
Draft a Policy Memo: Individual Liberty, Public Safety, and Immigration
Unit 4: Income Equality, Equal Employment, and Affirmative Action
4.1: Taxes and Tax Reform
4.2: EEO Compliance
4.3: Affirmative Action
4.1: Income Equality
Financing Government
Income Inequality
4.2: Equal Employment Opportunity
Employment Discrimination
The Americans with Disabilities Act
4.3: Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action
Cheryl J. Hopwood v. State of Texas
Grutter v. Bollinger
Unit 4 Assessment
Draft a Policy Memo: Income Equality, Equal Employment, and Affirmative Action
Unit 5: Care for the Poor, Sick, Elderly, and Infirm
5.1: Social Security and Health Insurance
5.2: Poverty in America
5.3: Dilemmas Involving Illness and Infirmity
5.1: Social Security and Health Insurance
Historical Background and Development of Social Security
Health Disparities
Federal Investments to Eliminate Racial/Ethnic Health-Care Disparities
5.2: Poverty in America
Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 2009–2011
Growing Economic Inequality and Its (Partially) Political Roots
5.3: Dilemmas Involving Illness and Infirmity
Involuntary Treatment in Psychiatry Around the World
Ethical Concerns in End-of-Life Care
The Terri Schiavo Debacle: What Have We Learned?
Unit 5 Assessment
Draft a Policy Memo: Care for the Poor, Sick, Elderly, and Infirm
Unit 6: Policies Regarding Families and Personal Relationships
6.1: Marriage and Other Consensual Adult Relationships
6.2: Parent/Child Relationships
6.3: Contraception and Abortion
Unit 6 Assessment
6.1: Marriage and Other Consensual Adult Relationships
Family Law
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Same-Sex Marriage and Other Moral Taboos: Cultural Acceptances, Change in American Public Opinion and the Evidence from the Opinion Polls
6.2: Parent/Child Relationships
Applying Ethical Decision Making to Child Abuse Reporting
The Case for Vaccinating Children in School and Day Care by Default
6.3: Contraception and Abortion
Griswold v. Connecticut
Unit 7: National Security and Foreign Relations
7.1: Conventional Combat and Intelligence Operations
7.2: Nonconventional Combat and Intelligence Operations
7.3: Gender and Sexual Preference Issues in the Military
7.1: Combat and Intelligence Operation Tactics
The Ethics of War
The Study of Torture: Why It Persists, Why Perceptions of It are Malleable, and Why It is Difficult to Eradicate
7.2: Ethics and Foreign Relations
The U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Ethics and Good Leadership in Foreign Policy
7.3: Foreign Trade and Economic Development
Ethical Challenges in the Global Environment
The Role of International Conventions and Covenants in Achieving Economic and Environmental Justice
7.4: Military Intervention
Humanitarian Intervention
Unit 7 Assessment
Write a Policy Memo: National Security and Foreign Relations
Unit 8: Foreign Relations, Foreign Trade, Foreign Aid, and Military Intervention
8.1: Ethics and Foreign Relations
8.2: Ethics, Foreign Trade, and Economic Development
8.3: Military Intervention in Foreign Affairs
Unit 8 Assessment
Unit 9: Science, Technology, and Commerce
9.1: Ethics and the Free Market
9.2: Government Ethics and Information Technology
9.3: Government Ethics and Medicine
Unit 9 Assessment
Unit 10: Daily Operations of Government, Lobbying, Campaigns, and Elections
10.1: Ethics and Daily Operations of Government
10.2: Ethics, Lobbying, Elections, and Campaign Finance Issues
Unit 10 Assessment
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