Applied Ethics
Master
In Brighton And Hove
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Brighton and hove
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Duration
1 Year
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About this course
For non-native speakers of English:
IELTS 6.5 overall, and 6.0 in writing, or equivalent qualification.
Degree and/or experience:
Normally an undergraduate degree or equivalent. Appropriate accredited modules completed as part of other masters degrees, or their recognised equivalent, are taken into consideration.
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Course programme
Questions of ethics have come to the fore of late in a broad range of professions and academic subject areas. There have of course been longstanding concerns with ethical standards and practices in a number of ‘old’ professions, signally in law and medicine, where they have often been part of the regulatory framework of Professional and Statutory bodies. More recently, however, questions of ethics and ethical practice(s) have become of substantial concern both to practitioners in a wide variety of fields (e.g. engineering ethics, research ethics) and to professional and academic researchers and scholars. Thus there are now academic journals devoted to the ethics of most professions; and philosophy and ethics as academic fields are increasingly concerned with application and practice.
This Masters Programme draws on a number of areas of the University’s provision to identify and address ethical concerns in a variety of fields. On top of the core modules each pathway offers options designed for a specific disclipline and these taught elements lead to the culminating MA research project. Since students on the Programme will have differing professional and/or occupational experiences, you will benefit from being members of an interdisciplinary cohort who will have come to the Programme on the basis of a variety of intellectual trajectories. In the core modules, there will be a mix of “professional/occupational” and “academic” interests.
No previous familiarity with philosophy is assumed: the first two core units, which students on all the degrees take together, are designed to introduce students to the activity of philosophical thinking. Two further core units, again taken by everyone, prepare students for their research project. All MA students thus take four Core Modules. You then take two optional modules, depending on the named award you are seeking.
Mode of Attendance : Full-time
Applied Ethics