AP/MODR1760 6.0 B: Reasoning About Morality and Values
Offered by: MODR
Session
Summer 2019
Term
SU
Format
LECT
Instructor
Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite
This is a skills-based course focusing on critical thinking, critical writing, and logical and linguistic analysis. The course uses examples drawn from areas in the humanities where value judgements are made. Different sections will stress different topics in ethics, aesthetics, religion or law. Course credit exclusions: AP/MODR 1730 6.00, AP/MODR 1770 6.00.
Phillip MacEwen
pmacewen@yorku.ca
Office Location: MC 231
Phone Number: (416) 736-2100 Ext. 77483
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 2:30 – 3:30
These courses introduce students to a variety of critical skills and then use these skills to address a variety of social issues and issues about morality and values.
1) Jean Saindon and Peter John Krek, “Critical Thinking: Argument and Argumentation,” 2nd ed., Toronto: Nelson, 2014, ISBN 978-0-17-666100-7;
2) Course Kit, MODR 1730C/1760B
three tests
two essays
a final exam.
All assignments are worth 20% of the final grade. Students get the higher grade of tests 1 and 2, provided they complete both.
Two thirds of the course is devoted to studying critical skills and the last third to using them to address a variety of social issues and issues about morality and values.
1) To help students develop their reasoning skills as a means of
2) helping them think critically about major social issues and issues about morality and values.
- Academic Honesty
- Student Rights and Responsibilities
- Religious Observance
- Grading Scheme and Feedback
- 20% Rule
No examinations or tests collectively worth more than 20% of the final grade in a course will be given during the final 14 calendar days of classes in a term. The exceptions to the rule are classes which regularly meet Friday evenings or on Saturday and/or Sunday at any time, and courses offered in the compressed summer terms. - Academic Accommodation for Students with Disabilities