This course is designed to introduce the student to current issues and ethical dilemmas confronting professional helpers. The course encourages development of critical thinking skills by looking at dilemmas from a multifaceted point of view. Codes of ethics for the various halping professions are reviewed and emphasis is placed on understanding these codes. The course strives to provide the student a foundation in basic concepts of ethics and values, an understanding of the complexity of ethical decision making, and a sense of how their own values affect practice. The primary focus of this course is ethics, critical thinking, decision making and self awareness.
- Credits:
- 3.0
- Academic Level:
- Undergraduate
- Department:
- Social Work [SW]
- Subject:
- Social Work [SWK]
- Terms Offered:
(Term Legend)
- 2014SP, 2013S3, 2013SP, 2012S4, 2012SP, 2011SP, 2010S5, 2010SP, 2009SP, 2008SP, 2007SP
Term Legend
Undergraduate
- FA: Fall Semester (August-December)
- SP: Spring Semester (January-May)
- S1: Summer Session 1 (May)
- S2: Summer Session 2 (June)
- S3: Summer Session 3 (Online)
- S4: Summer Session 4 (Independent Study)
Graduate
- FS: Fall Semester (August-December)
- SS: Spring Semester (January-May)
- G1: Summer Session 1
- G2: Summer Session 2
- G3: Summer Session 3
- ST: Special Term