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Continuing Professional Development
Ethics and Public Policy
Dates and costs
* Next delivery: flexible
* Unit cost: £550
This unit is for:
- Those who work in the area of public policy and international development and who wish to know more, and reflect upon, the ethical underpinnings of policy decisions.
- Postgraduate students in the social sciences who are interested in applied ethics in an international context.
The unit involves
- An average of 5 hours of study a week (which includes a weekly study guide to complete and a one hour interactive weekly on-line seminar).
- Writing a 2,500 word essay.
Unit content
- To provide analytical tools to evaluate critically development issues from an ethical perspective.
- To develop a critical awareness of the influence of values on public policy, democratic debate and international development.
- To demonstrate the ethical underpinnings of public policy and to form a critical opinion about them.
- To inform public action on the basis of informed and self-critical ethical judgments.
- Topics covered:
- Ethical reflection in international development
- Utilitarianism
- Aristotelian ethics
- Kantian ethics
- Political liberalism
- Approaches to justice
- Global justice
- Feminist ethics
- Environmental ethics
Qualifications
The unit carries 6 credits and can build towards a University of Bath degree qualification:
- Postgraduate Certificate (30 credits)
- Diploma (60 credits)
- MSc (90 credits)
Further information
For further information about our CPD programmes, please contact Dr Séverine Deneulin.
email: s.deneulin@bath.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 6805
