Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
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Study Details: 12 months distance learning24 months part time
Explore the ethical issues raised by different professional contexts, and discover how ethical principles can be applied to help us navigate our increasingly complex working environments.
This online course allows you to examine current issues, debates, and theories around the application of ethics in professional settings.
Using a blend of theory and real-life case studies, you’ll gain a critical understanding of issues such as trust, integrity, privacy, consent and professional responsibility.
Throughout, you’ll benefit from teaching that blends insights from industry professionals with the latest in ethical research. With the expert guidance of your tutors, you’ll use the theoretical understanding you gain to respond to social, technological, and political developments as they occur.
Our diverse community includes people from a wide variety of countries and backgrounds, with many opportunities to network and connect with our online community throughout your time studying with us, including various events and activities we run as an active and thriving applied ethics research centre. Many of our students have achieved the publication of a paper as a result of their time studying with us and some of them have been interviewed on our podcast. Whether you’re looking for career progression, a change of direction, or knowledge of a new subject area, you’ll receive all the support you need to succeed.
Academic or professional experience in a relevant field.
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Studying applied ethics will allow you to develop transferable skills in research, critical thinking and communication. It will also give you more confidence to handle situations with ethical implications in the workplace.
All of this is good preparation for a range of careers, while it could also benefit you in your current role. In particular, this course gives you scope to develop your career in growing areas such as compliance and corporate social responsibility.
Year 1 compulsory modules
Introduction to Ethics: Reasons, Motivation, Obligations and Happiness 15
Professional Issues 1 15
Agents and Professional Responsibility 15
Justice: Fairness, Equality and Diversity 15
Year 1 optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
Professional Issues 3: Consent and Contracts 15
Global Environmental Ethics 15
Business Ethics 15
Professional Ethics Project 15
Artificial Intelligence & Data Ethics 15
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