By the End of Class Today….Get your picture taken!

For Next Time….Read assignments (print + online) listed for August 25th

Review pages 1-9 in syllabus for course policiesCatch up if you haven’t done this yet by completing

everything on website under New Students New Students (by 6:30 PM Wed.)

ProcessWhat I heard from you about the classCollaboration & RespectUse of the internet

ContentClass Learning Outcomes & RequirementsEthics as self-discoveryWhat can CST do for you?

What next?Books, computers, cellphonesYour questions about the class

Great variety in background, geography, majors, etc.

Questions about Catholicism/religious background

What the course should not be What you value about your education

“the same type of things every class”

an opinion “is ever seen as wrong by students or a professor just because it is different”

“push ideas on us” rather than “inform us thoroughly so we can make educated beliefs”

“a class where someone is judged for expressing an unpopular opinion”

“one-sided discussions”“each class session is a lecture”

“lecture, quiz, lecture, test”

“should not be vague” without “background or supporting information for me to be able to actively participate”

“close-minded, by-the-book teachings”

“tell us what to think” rather than “help us understand the facts to we can form an opinion”

“relies on PowerPoint to teach”

homework & papers are “simply busywork”

A. Acquiring information (facts, principles, concepts)

B. Learning how to use information and knowledge in new situations

C. Developing lifelong learning skills

A. Acquiring information (facts, principles, concepts)

B. Learning how to use information and knowledge in new situations

C. Developing lifelong learning skills

ProcessWhat I heard from you about the classCollaboration & RespectUse of the internet

ContentClass Learning Outcomes & RequirementsEthics as self-discoveryWhat can CST do for you?

What next?Books, computers, cellphonesYour questions about the class

Class Participation/Assessment [20%]

Voicethread Preparation [15%]

2 Ethical Analysis Essays [30%]

1 Semester Project [20%]

Final Take-Home Essays [15%]

When you ask about ethics, you ask about what you should hold dear.

When you ask about what you should hold dear, you ask about what you should love.

When you ask about what you should love, you ask about who you are.

What aspects of life do a person’s ethical values/principles affect?

By “aspects of life,” I mean choices, activities, relationships, affiliations of one sort or another, etc.

Follow someone from roughly your age to the time of death.

a. Is morality just your own personal subjective opinion? Or are there moral TRUTHS?

b. How can the Church allow natural family planning but not artificial contraception?

c. Can Catholics support laws legalizing abortion?d. Can married infertile couples use in vitro fertilization?e. Should feeding be removed from PVS patients like Terri Schiavo?f. Is being poor something that individuals can control? Do illegal

immigrants have rights?g. What’s the Church’s view on health care reform?h. Don’t women have the right to be priests?i. Did the Church use to be in the death penalty business and what

are its current views on capital punishment?j. Does the Church think that torture is ever permissible?

Questions you’ll be able to answer

ProcessWhat I heard from you about the classCollaboration & RespectUse of the internet

ContentClass Learning Outcomes & RequirementsEthics as self-discoveryWhat can CST do for you?

What next?Books, computers, cellphonesYour questions about the class

Xeroxed Packet of Readings (18th edition) Sr. Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking

Note: The Prejean book is on reserve in the Library. All handouts and paper assignments are downloadable through the course website.