School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Professional Ethics, Accountability and Integrity
  • Unit Code

    CRI3205
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Suzanne Williamina ELLIS

Description

This unit explores the issue of ethical conduct in professional practice. It will provide students with the skills to analyse and discuss codes of conduct and ethical behaviours in law, policing and justice. Students will be challenged by ethical dilemmas in both theoretical and practical contexts.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed a minimum of 120 credit points.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to CRI3101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply ethical frameworks to ethical dilemmas.
  2. Critically evaluate and debate ethical dilemmas.
  3. Critique regulations such as codes of conduct for legal, policing and justice practitioners.
  4. Determine ethical issues in a global context.
  5. Evaluate the impact of misconduct and corruption in public office.
  6. Exercise critical thinking and judgement to recommend appropriate and sustainable solutions to ethical dilemmas.
  7. Review and analyse ethical challenges faced by legal practitioners, the police and criminal justice practitioners.

Unit Content

  1. Ethical challenges for the broader justice system.
  2. Ethics and global considerations.
  3. Misconduct: what should be done?
  4. The origins of ethical thought.
  5. What is ethical?

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus students attend a weekly seminar. Students will be introduced to the central concepts of the unit, and guided through the literature. Students are required to debate ethical issues and dilemmas orally and to develop critical perspectives on written sources. Off-campus students are provided with an electronic version of the seminars. All information is delivered to on-line students via Blackboard. Central concepts of the unit will be introduced. Ethical problem solving is an important aspect of the unit. Discussions on Blackboard allow students to debate ideas and dilemmas online and to develop critical perspectives on written sources. Regular online access is required.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestShort answer questions and quiz20%
EssayEssay40%
AssignmentWorkbook40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestShort answer questions and quiz20%
EssayEssay40%
AssignmentWorkbook40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Professional Ethics, Accountability and Integrity
  • Unit Code

    CRI3205
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Suzanne Williamina ELLIS

Description

This unit explores the issue of ethical conduct in professional practice. It will provide students with the skills to analyse and discuss codes of conduct and ethical behaviours in law, policing and justice. Students will be challenged by ethical dilemmas in both theoretical and practical contexts.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed a minimum of 120 credit points.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to CRI3101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply ethical frameworks to ethical dilemmas.
  2. Critically evaluate and debate ethical dilemmas.
  3. Critique regulations such as codes of conduct for legal, policing and justice practitioners.
  4. Determine ethical issues in a global context.
  5. Evaluate the impact of misconduct and corruption in public office.
  6. Exercise critical thinking and judgement to recommend appropriate and sustainable solutions to ethical dilemmas.
  7. Review and analyse ethical challenges faced by legal practitioners, the police and criminal justice practitioners.

Unit Content

  1. Ethical challenges for the broader justice system.
  2. Ethics and global considerations.
  3. Misconduct: what should be done?
  4. The origins of ethical thought.
  5. What is ethical?

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus students attend a weekly seminar. Students will be introduced to the central concepts of the unit, and guided through the literature. Students are required to debate ethical issues and dilemmas orally and to develop critical perspectives on written sources. Off-campus students are provided with an electronic version of the seminars. All information is delivered to on-line students via Blackboard. Central concepts of the unit will be introduced. Ethical problem solving is an important aspect of the unit. Discussions on Blackboard allow students to debate ideas and dilemmas online and to develop critical perspectives on written sources. Regular online access is required.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestShort answer questions and quiz20%
EssayEssay40%
AssignmentWorkbook40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestShort answer questions and quiz20%
EssayEssay40%
AssignmentWorkbook40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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