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School of Business and Economics Spring 2018

Course Title: Course Code: Department: Instructor: Email: Office: Office Hours:

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Life and Learning SD110 Department of Skills Development (SKD) Shandana Waheed [email protected] N-3/3 Friday (3:00pm-5:00pm) or by appointment

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Course Objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

To develop Critical thinking: the ability to think clearly and rationally. To develop reflective and independent thinking. To develop an appreciation of the need to give reasons to support or criticize a position or argument. To challenges us with hard moral dilemmas and invites us to ponder the right thing to do—in politics and in our everyday lives. To develop an awareness of how different societies may have different perspective about morality and ethics. To appreciate that there may NEVER be ONE RIGHT ANSWER.

Learning Objectives After studying this course the participants should be able to: 1. Creative Thinking – To generate new ideas, improve Problem Solving skills, improve analytic and evaluative skills to be applied to any situation. 2. Learn the basic art of reasoning, and be able to avoid common reasoning and argumentative fallacies – To provide a basic awareness of argumentative and reasoning skills that enables them to become critical and analytical about social norms and avoid dangers of propaganda and rhetoric. 3. Basic understanding of major perspective in moral reasoning.

Teaching Methodology Interactive Classes Scenario based teaching Class activities

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STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL ITEMS OUTLINED IN THE PARTICIPANT HANDBOOK Class Policy: Be On Time You need to be at class at the assigned time. After 10 minutes past the assigned time, you will be marked absent.

 Mobile Policy TURN OFF YOUR MOBILE PHONE! It is unprofessional to be texting or otherwise.

 Email Policy

READ YOUR EMAILS! You are responsible if you miss a deadline because you did not read your email. Participants should regularly check their university emails accounts regularly and respond accordingly.

 Class Attendance Policy

A minimum of 80% attendance is required for a participant to be eligible to sit in the final examination. Being sick and going to weddings are absences and will not be counted as present. You have the opportunity to use 6 absences out of 30 classes. Participants with less than 80% of attendance in a course will be given grade ‘F’ (Fail) and will not be allowed to take end term exams. International students who will be leaving for visa during semester should not use any days off except for visa trip. Otherwise they could reach short attendance.

 Withdraw Policy Students may withdraw from a course till the end of the 12th week of the semester. Consequently, grade W will be awarded to the student which shall have no impact on the calculation of the GPA of the student.A Student withdrawing after the 12th week shall be automatically awarded “F” grade which shall count in the GPA.

 Moodle Course Outline

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UMT –LMS (Moodle) is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a learning Management System (LMS). Participants should regularly visit the course website on MOODLE Course Management system, and fully benefit from its capabilities. If you are facing any problem using moodle, visit http://oit.umt.edu.pk/moodle. For further query send your queries to [email protected]

 Harassment Policy

Sexual or any other harassment is prohibited and is constituted as punishable offence. Sexual or any other harassment of any participant will not be tolerated. All actions categorized as sexual or any other harassment when done physically or verbally would also be considered as sexual harassment when done using electronic media such as computers, mobiles, internet, emails etc.

 Use of Unfair Means/Honesty Policy Any participant found using unfair means or assisting another participant during a class test/quiz, assignments or examination would be liable to disciplinary action.

 Plagiarism Policy All students are required to attach a “Turnitin” report on every assignment, big or small. Any student who attempts to bypass “Turnitin” will receive “F” grade which will count towards the CGPA. The participants submit the plagiarism report to the resource person with every assignment, report, project, thesis etc. If student attempts to cheat “Turnitin”, he/she will receive a second “F” that will count towards the CGPA. There are special rules on plagiarism for final reports etc. all outlined in your handbook.

 Communication of Results The results of quizzes, midterms and assignments are communicated to the participants during the semester and answer books are returned to them. It is the responsibility of the course instructor to keep the participants informed about his/her progress during the semester. The course instructor will inform a participant at least one week before the final examination related to his or her performance in the course.

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Course Outline Course code: SD110

Course title: Life and Learning

Grade Evaluation Criteria Following is the criteria for the distribution of marks to evaluate final grade in a semester.

Marks Evaluation

Marks in percentage

Quizzes (2)

5+5

Assignments (2)

10+10

Mid Term

20

Class Participation

15

Final exam

35

Total

100

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Week

Topic

Reading

23-Oct-2018

Rhetoric and fallacies

Chapter 5& 6 Critical Thinking- 9th Edition

26-Oct-2018

Major Perspectives in Moral Reasoning

Chapter 1 Justice, Whats the right thing to do? Michael J. Sandel

Project Proposal (assignment)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Moral Reasoning https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasoning-moral/ Chapter 2 Justice, Whats the right thing to do? Michael J. Sandel

30-Oct-2018

Utilitarianism

2-Nov-2018

Libertarianism

Chapter 3 Justice, Whats the right thing to do? Michael J. Sandel

6-Nov-2018

Kant’s categorical Imperative

Chapter 5 Justice, Whats the right thing to do? Michael J. Sandel

9-Nov-2018

John Rawls theory of justice

Chapter 6 Justice, Whats the right thing to do?

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Assignment

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Mid-Term Project

Michael J. Sandel Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/

13-Nov-2018

Liberalism

16-Nov-2018

Neo-Liberalism

What is Neo Liberalism? https://corpwatch.org/article/what-neoliberalism

20-Nov-2018

Bias

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/criticalthinking/#BiasCritThinTheoPeda

23-Nov-2018

Case study: Gender Bias

TBD

27-Nov-2018

Documentary

Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity - A Pentagon Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEPdOZbyzbw

Class assignment

30-Nov-2018

Conclusion Activity

Postmodern Paradox of Creativity https://dailytimes.com.pk/265639/the-postmodernparadox-of-creativity/

Critical Analysis

4-Dec-2018

Final Exam

Open Book

1 hour

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