Ethics and Citizenship

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Active Methodologies: lectures and discussion; simulation of situations aiming at promoting the student’s personal and social development; group work and cooperative learning; work sheets; research projects; classes with studnts presenting their work; non-formal methodologies aiming at promoting active social participation and co-responsibility on the learning process.

Assessment: final exam (written test) or frequency evaluation; this is composed by the elaboration and presentation of a work on themes of the syllabus; group work students’ provision is differenciable.

Competencies: Students are supposed: to be able to evaluate (to conceptualize, to judge, to reason) based on values; to be able to act responsibly and engagedly, as an autonomous being; to be able to see themselves as persons and citizens; to be able of respect and empathy, recognizing the Other as the ethical instance for action; to be able of acting with justice and solidarity and to understand the common good and the right/ value of the Other; to like diversity, to communicate listening attentively the other’s point of views.

1) Basic concepts: Values, Ethics, Morals and Deontology

2) The debate between Freedom and Responsibility

3) Democratic and plural citizenship

4) Current ethical/ moral problems and dilemmas    

• - Exam - 100.0%

• - Individual and/or Group Work - 100.0%

NAO

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