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BBA-Ethics and Human Values - Syllabus

This document outlines a mandatory non-credit course on Professional Ethics and Human Values. The course aims to discuss personal convictions and ethics through codes of professional conduct. It seeks to help students demonstrate principles of ethics, analyze problems in implementing morality, and develop strategies to address issues in professional ethics. The course content covers topics like the scope of ethics, professional ideals and virtues, social experimentation, responsibilities and rights, and integrating human values with professional ethics. Students will engage in experiential learning activities like case studies, field visits, and discussions related to the course topics.

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BBA-Ethics and Human Values - Syllabus

This document outlines a mandatory non-credit course on Professional Ethics and Human Values. The course aims to discuss personal convictions and ethics through codes of professional conduct. It seeks to help students demonstrate principles of ethics, analyze problems in implementing morality, and develop strategies to address issues in professional ethics. The course content covers topics like the scope of ethics, professional ideals and virtues, social experimentation, responsibilities and rights, and integrating human values with professional ethics. Students will engage in experiential learning activities like case studies, field visits, and discussions related to the course topics.

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MANDATORY NON - CREDIT COURSE

Course Code PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND HUMAN L T P S C


VALUES

22LG107601 2 - - - 2

Pre-Requisite -
Anti-Requisite -
Co-Requisite -

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course deals with personal conviction, and ethics and describes
the accepted principles and standards of conduct regarding moral duties and virtues as applied
to an organization. Codes of professional ethics guide the stakeholders of an organization about
the desirable and undesirable acts related to the profession.

COURSE OUTCOMES: After successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

CO1. Demonstrate the principles of ethics, professional values, and social responsibility.

CO2. Analyze the problems in the implementation of moral autonomy and use ethical
theories in resolving moral dilemmas.
CO3. Develop suitable strategies to resolve problems that arise in practicing professional
ethics and Industrial standards.
CO4. Function as a member, consultant, manager, advisor and leader in multi-disciplinary
teams.
CO5. Provide solutions to complex problems associated with professional ethics using
analysis and interpretation.

CO-PO Mapping Table:


Program Outcomes
Learning
Outcomes PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12

CO1 3 - - - - 2 2 2 2 - - -

CO2 2 3 2 - 2 2 2 2 2 - - -

CO3 2 - 3 - 2 2 2 2 2 - - -

CO4 2 - - - - 2 2 2 2 - 3 -

CO5 2 2 3 2 - 3 2 2 2 - - -
Course
Correlation 2 3 - - 2 2 2 2 2 - 3 -
Mapping
Correlation Levels: 3: High; 2: Medium; 1: Low
COURSE CONTENT

Module 1: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS (06 Periods)


Scope and aim of ethics, Senses of ethics, Variety of moral issues, Types of inquiry, Moral
dilemmas, Moral autonomy-Kohlberg’s theory, Gilligan’s theory, Consensus, and
controversy.

Module 2: PROFESSIONAL IDEALS AND VIRTUES (06 Periods)


Theories on virtues and ideals, Professions, Professionalism, Characteristics, Expectations,
Professional responsibility, Integrity, Self-respect, Sense of responsibility, Self-interest,
Customs and religion, Self-interest and ethical egoism, Customs and ethical relativism,
Religion and divine command ethics, Use of ethical theories, Resolving moral dilemmas and
moral leadership.
Module 3: SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION (06 Periods)

Experimentation, Similarities to standard experiments, Learning from the past and


knowledge gained, responsible experimenters, Conscientiousness, Moral autonomy and
accountability, The challenger case, Codes of ethics and limitations, Industrial standards and
Problems with the law of engineering.

Module 4: RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS (06 Periods)


Collegiality and loyalty, Respect for authority, Collective bargaining, Confidentiality, Conflict
of interests, Occupational crime, Rights of engineers, Professional rights, Whistle-blowing,
The BART case, Employee rights, and discrimination.

Module 5: HARMONY WITH PROFESSIONAL ETHICS (06 Periods)


Acceptance of human values; Ethical Human Conduct; Basis for Humanistic Education,
Constitution, and Universal Order; Competence in professional ethics; Case studies: Holistic
technologies, Management Models and Production Systems; Transition from the present
state to Universal Human Order: socially and ecologically responsible engineers,
technologists and managers - enriching institutions and organizations.

Total Periods: 30

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

1. Demonstrate orally using your experiences of what is naturally acceptable in a relationship


– Feeling of respect or disrespect and what is naturally acceptable is to nurture or exploit
others.
2. Identify community partners and discuss with a community partner or organization.
Prepare a report by identifying and analysing the issues or opportunities.
3. Field experiences may be directed to include a range of time-intensive endeavours that
require varying levels of student interaction. Prepare a report on visiting a Juvenile home.

4. Students read a speech in the classroom by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi
Annan on human values.
5. Students are encouraged to bring a daily newspaper to class or to access any news related
to the need for human values and note down the points.

6. Bring out the relevance of engineering ethics theory and practice with relevance to current
trends.
7. Professional ideals and virtues are important to everyone. Prepare a case study on the
professional ideals and virtue of any one of the famous sports personalities from India.

8. Compare the present to the past in engineering experimentations concerning the change
in professionalism.
9. Make a study on occupational crime and the role of modern technology in finding solutions.

10. Prepare a case study on how to maintain harmony with different cultural people using
professional ethics.
RESOURCES

TEXTBOOKS:

1. Gaur R R, Sangal R & G P Bagaria, Human Values and Professional Ethics, Excel Books,
New Delhi, 2010.
2. Govindarajan, M., Nata Govindarajan, M., Natarajan, S. and Senthilkumar, V. S., Engineering
Ethics, Prentice Hall of India, 2004.
3. Mike W. Martin and Roland Schinzinger, Ethics in Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition,
2007.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. S. Kannan and K. Srilakshmi, Human Values and Professional Ethics, Taxmann Allied Services
Pvt Ltd., 2009.
2. Edmund G. Seebauer and Robert L. Barry, Fundamental of Ethics for Scientists and Engineers,
Oxford University Press, 2001.
3. Charles F. Fledderman, Engineering Ethics, Pearson Education, 2nd Edition, 2004.

4. R. Subramanaian, Professional Ethics, Oxford Higher Education, 2013.

VIDEO LECTURES:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfGIq_EiXzI
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFHOtH54oUc
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJshY11nX14
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyP09S0UEzA
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QMwjV_ZVtc

Web Resources:

1. https://siiet.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/7.1.10-professional-ethics-manual.pdf

2. https://soaneemrana.org/onewebmedia/Professional%20Ethics%20and%20Human%20Valu
es%20by%20R.S%20NAAGARAZAN.pdf
3. https://india.oup.com/productPage/5591038/7421214/9780199475070

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