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DAWSON COLLEGE HUMANITIES 345- BXH-DW, ETHICAL ISSUES, Sections: 12, 13, 14 COURSE TITLE: EFFECTIVE DATE): WORKLOAD (per week PREREQUISITES: INSTRUCTOR'S NAME: TELEPHONE LOCAL: OFFICE NUMBER: OFFICE HOURS: E-MAIL OR OTHER: RESPONSE TIME:

Applied Ethics in Humanities: Between the Self and the Other Winter 2021 3-0-3 345-101-MQ; 345-102-MQ Joseph Rosen 1288 3D7 (only by appointment or Mio—due to Covid) MIO only 24 hrs not including weekends or holidays

STATEMENT OF THE COMPETENCY Learning Outcome: To apply a critical thought process to ethical issues relevant to the field of study. ELEMENTS OF THE COMPETENCY (General Instructional Objectives Common to all Ethical Issues Courses) Students who successfully complete the Ethical Issues course in Humanities should be able to: 1. Situate significant ethical issues in appropriate world views and fields of knowledge. 2. Explain the major ideas, values, and social implication of ethical issues. 3. Organize the ethical questions and their implications into coherent patterns. 4. Debate the ethical issues. COURSE DESCRIPTION AND CONTENT: Who are we talking about when we say ‘we’? What is the relationship between ‘us’ and ‘them’? Am I responsible to others, and if so, who? This course introduces students to an understanding of ethics that is structured by the relationship between self and other. We will investigate the concept of the ‘Other,’ explore the egotistical and ethical dimensions of the self, look at various forms of ‘othering’, and define ethics as a relation between self and other that encourages curiosity, diversity and self-growth. Students will learn how to think critically about ethical issues using the concepts of self and other. We will learn how to identify, analyze, and critique the ways that certain groups are stereotyped and defined as ‘other’. Specific examples we will look at include: the demonization of death row prisoners; the vilification of Arabs and Muslims in Hollywood; stereotypes about ‘tough’ masculinity; and the ‘othercide’ of indigenous culture in the Americas. Students will be encouraged to bring their own examples and interests into the class. REQUIRED TEXT(S) OR READING(S): A course reader, available at the bookstore, contains 150 pages of reading, including texts by Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, Judith Butler, bell hooks, Stuart Hall, Lisa Guenther, Debra Merskin, Eduardo Galeano & Leanne Simpson. Additional material (30-50 pgs) will be provided during the course. LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS: This course combines short lectures, active class discussions, group work, in-class writing exercises and online contributions to class discussions. Homework assignments will include finding contemporary media relevant to class themes. In addition to learning specific methods of analysis, we will look at particular news media in order to apply these critical tools.

During Covid: 50% of our course will consist of synchronous online classes using the Zoom platform. 50% or our course will be asynchronous, often using Moodle Forums for writing assignments. SCHEDULE OF COURSE CONTENT (TENTATIVE): First we develop a framework for thinking about ethics through the categories of self and other. Second, we analyze the ethical issues involved in social constructions and representations of ‘otherness’. We will apply our understanding of ethics to specific examples of stereotyping in the media. Finally, students will have the opportunity to apply course material to their own program of study. (Schedule subject to change.) EVALUATION TOOLS/ASSIGNMENTS: Type of evaluation tool/assignment

Due date

Quizzes & Writing Assignments (2500-4000 words)

Weeks 210 Weeks 69

Group Oral Presentation

Program Related Essay (Summative Assessment) (1500- Week 112000 words) 15 Breakdown of Program Related Essay (Summative Assessment): Thesis proposal Research Report Rough Draft Peer Editing & Commenting Revised Final Draft

% of final mark 40 10

50

5% 5% 5% 10% 25%

TECHNOLOGY POLICY No laptops can be used in class (except in cases of properly documented medical situations). No cell phones can be used in class. LATE ASSIGNMENT POLICY: Late assignments will be penalized 3% per day, including weekends. I do not accept late work after the last day of class. (Exceptions can be made in cases of documented medical illnesses or other legitimate reasons.) PASSING GRADE POLICY: Students must obtain a total grade of at least 60% in order to pass the course. Students must receive a grade of at least 60% for the program-related assignment (also known as Comprehensive Examination for Science students). If the student does not pass the program-related assignment, the maximum grade the student will receive for the course is 50%. COLLEGE and COURSE POLICIES: ISEP: “The Institutional Student Evaluation Policy (ISEP) is designed to promote equitable and effective evaluation of student learning and is therefore a crucial policy to read and understand. The policy describes the rights and obligations of students, faculty, departments, programs, and the College administration with

regard to evaluation in all your courses, including grade reviews and resolution of academic grievance. ISEP is available on the Dawson website.” (ISEP 2015, III. A. 10. a) DEPARTMENTAL LITERACY STANDARD: Students enrolled in Humanities courses are expected to have college-level English reading skills and to demonstrate college-level English writing skills. COURSE LITERACY POLICY: Students are responsible for ensuring they understand the main ideas and key terms found in course texts, class lectures and discussions. All written assignments must follow the basic rules of essay writing, including proper grammar, sentence structure, paragraph development, and bibliographic references. Students in need of assistance with reading or writing should immediately contact the Academic Skills Center. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY: Cheating and plagiarism are unacceptable and represent serious academic offences (refer to the "Institutional Student Evaluation Policy" (ISEP) for further details). Cheating and Plagiarism include: culling ideas, terminology, passages and other information from electronic or print sources that are not properly quoted or credited; poor paraphrasing of a passage from a source; falsifying, altering or creating a source; assistance from another person to such an extent that the work is no longer your own; submitting your own work, in whole or in part, from a previous course; substituting any part of another’s work, published or unpublished, as your own. Specific consequences for cheating and plagiarism involve [1] reporting the act of plagiarism to the Dean and [2] an automatic ‘zero’ for the assignment with no chance of re-submission. According to ISEP, the teacher is required to report to the Sector Dean all cases of cheating and plagiarism affecting a student’s grade. (Section V-C) STUDENT CONDUCT: Everyone has the right to a safe and non-violent environment. Students are obliged to conduct themselves as stated in the Student Code of Conduct and in the ISEP section on the roles and responsibilities of students. (ISEP Section II-D) ATTENDANCE POLICY: Attendance and Participation are essential: too many absences may lead to the inability to complete in-class assignments and this may lead to failure of the course. Regular quizzes and in-class writing exercises will be used to ensure that students are reading course materials and actively participating. . Students who are absent will not be allowed to make up in-class assignments or quizzes and students are responsible for catching up on lectures and homework on their own (from other students). Students should refer to ISEP (Section IV-C) regarding attendance. INTENSIVE COURSE CONFLICTS: “If a student is attending an intensive course, the student must inform the teacher, within the first two weeks of class, of the specific dates of any anticipated absences.” POLICY ON RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES: Students who intend to observe religious holidays must inform their teachers in writing as prescribed in the ISEP Policy on Religious Observances (ISEP Section IV-D), which requires that this be done within the first two weeks of class....