Workforce Skills: Ethical Reasoning

Workforce Skills: Ethical Reasoning

Issued by Snow College

To earn this badge, instructors rate a student artifact or assignment produced in a course that targets Ethical Reasoning, which is reasoning about right and wrong human conduct. It requires students to be able to assess their own ethical values and the social context of problems, recognize ethical issues in a variety of settings, think about how different ethical perspectives might be applied to ethical dilemmas and consider the ramifications of alternative actions.

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Ethical Self-Awareness - Detailed analysis of core beliefs and the origins of such.
  • Understanding Ethical Concepts - Name the major theory used and can present the gist and details of the theory.
  • Issue Recognition - Recognize ethical issues in a complex context; may recognize relationships among issues.
  • Applying Ethical Concepts - Apply ethical concepts to an ethical question accurately.
  • Evaluation of Ethical Concepts - States a position on the issue while sufficiently recognizing and responding to objections, assumptions and implications of the position.