University of Portland Bulletin 2013-2014

Goal II:

Develop the knowledge and skills for acting ethically in everyday life.

Learning Outcomes:

The student will be able to:

  1. Recognize the limits of relativism and absolutism;
  2. Recognize the ethical dimensions of novel problems and situations;
  3. Frame an ethical problem;
  4. Analyze a problem or situation using various ethical theories;
  5. Come to a tentative judgment about an ethical problem he or she has framed and analyzed;
  6. Distinguish ethics from law.