FVP:UVSRPV0148 Ethics in Social Work and PA - Course Information
UVSRPV0148 Ethics in Social Work and PA
Faculty of Public Policies in OpavaSummer 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Jiří Sedláček
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- žádné
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Public Administration and Regional Policy (programme FVP, B6731-SPSP)
- Course objectives
- The course develops the knowledge of social philosophy and anthropology in the field of ethics, presents the primary categories, directions, positions and personalities of theory of moral from the point of view of their relevancy for social workers to students. The students will be also provided with principal concepts and relations: morality, moral, ethics - relation of moral to religion, ideology and politics, application of principal moral categories in these relations, application of philosophical basics of ethical theories in the field of social work (deontics, utilitarianism, anti-oppressive theories, ethics of participation, ethics of discourse), application of categories of social ethics in professional ethics, questions of ethical codex of social work. The course is intended for Department of Public Administration and Regional Policy students only.
- Syllabus
- 1. Moral pre-understanding. Classification of ethics
2. Empirical ethics: hedonism, D. Hume, utilitarianism
3. Kant´s ethics - alternative to empirical ethics
4. Norms, social ethos and conscience
5. Science of virtues
6. Felicity and meaning
7. Sociological and genealogical relativization of moral
8. Biological relativization of morality. Ethical issue of socio-biology
9. New ethical concepts
10. Research trends in ethics
11. Contexts of social ethics
12. Partial fields and problems of social ethics. Professional ethics.
- 1. Moral pre-understanding. Classification of ethics
- Literature
- required literature
- RICH, A. Etika hospodářství I. Praha: OIKOYMENH. ISBN 80-85241-61-7. info
- NEČASOVÁ, M. Úvod do filozofie a etiky v sociální práci. Brno: MU, 2001. info
- BRÁZDA, R. Úvod do srovnávací etiky. Praha: KLP, 1998. info
- SEDLÁK, J. Vybrané problémy ze sociální etiky. Brno: MU, 1996. info
- ANZENBACHER, A. Úvod do etiky. Praha: Zvon, 1994. ISBN 80-7113-111-3. info
- Teaching methods
- Interactive lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion - Assessment methods
- Didactic test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- The oral exam comprises defence of seminar work. Subsequently, the student draws one question from the circle of topics stated in course content.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2012, recent)
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