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Program Requirements

The MA in Applied Ethics & the Professions is a 30-semester-hour degree program that includes:

Required Methodological Core Courses (6 credit hours)
AEP 501 Foundations of Ethics I (Fall) 3
AEP 502 Foundations of Ethics II (Spring) 3

Required Concentration Courses (3 credit hours)
AEP 550 Ethical and Spiritual Issues in Pastoral Care (Fall – Even Years) 3

Elective Concentration (15 credit hours) Students Will Select Courses:
Students are eligible to take courses that they identify to be of interest and relevant; however, they are required to clear the choice with a PCES faculty mentor first. See electives in the online catalogue for each semester under graduate offerings for AEP, CMN, PSY (West campus M.A.), MAIS, JHR, PHI, REL, SOC, SWG (CTB), WST designators.

Required Applied Ethics Project (6 credit hours)
AEP 593 Applied Project 6

Core Courses

The two required courses in ethics will provide the students with the theoretical and historical foundation to pursue applied ethics expertise.

AEP 501 Foundations of Ethics I

A graduate level study of primary texts of classic ethical theories and their applications to various issues in daily life and the professions. Ethical traditions studied in the course will include some of these frameworks: virtue ethics and natural law ethics, consequentialism and contractualism, deontology and critical communitarianism. The course will pay attention to the shifting nature of the relation between ethics and religion. In the applied, activity-portion of the course, students will investigate real life ethical issues and examine them from several normative perspectives studied in the course. (3 credits)

AEP 502* Foundations of Ethics II

A graduate level study of contemporary moral philosophy and social ethics and their applications to the pressing issues of the present age. The course will consider some of these sources for ethical thinking in the twentieth century and their relation to classic traditions: existential ethics, critical theory, race and gender theory, postmodern ethics, and post-Holocaust ethics. An important aspect of this course will be to examine the possibility of an ethic suitable for the global coexistence among secular, spiritual, and post secular perspectives. In the applied, activity-portion of the course, students will investigate real life ethical issues with a global significance and examine them from several contemporary perspectives studied in the course. PREREQUISITE: AEP 501. (3 credits)

CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENT FOR PCES

AEP 550 Ethical and Spiritual Issues in Pastoral Care

CAPSTONE COURSE (REQUIRED)

AEP 593 Applied Ethics Capstone Project (required - 6 credit hours)

The students’ general knowledge of pastoral care ethics and spirituality will be assessed through regular written and oral assignments, written exams, papers, and applied ethics Capstone project. The Capstone project integrates ethical principles and theories into the specific professional area(s) of students’ current professional field or the one in which the student intends to work. The latter could be accompanied by an internship in a hospice, hospital, prison or other service area.

The Capstone project will be overseen by the faculty, an individual supervisory committee or a major advisor. In consultation with the program committee, the student will construct a portfolio of the Capstone project (an applied research project connected with one’s internship or current work in the field would qualify in place of a standard M.A. thesis) that will be assessed in writing or in a form of an oral defense by a major advisor or the supervisory committee.

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