Ethics and College Student Life: A Case Study Approach

By Pamela A. Moss, Kenneth A. Strike, Pamela A. Moss

Book Overview

This unique hands-on guide uses a highly effective case approach to explore specific, reality-based examples of the complex, controversial, and difficult ethical issues that students face on college campuses today-e.g., plagiarism, racism and hate speech, date rape, alcohol abuse. Then, through thought-provoking questions and critical discussions, prods readers to explore their own positions, notions, and opinions, and to justify their stances. It shows them how five important ethical principles can be used to think through these problems and to solve them in ethical dialogues. KEY TOPICS: Academic Integrity, Grading, and Cheating. Tolerance, Diversity, and Hate Speech. Privacy and Dialogue. Loyalty, Friendship, and Community. Sex, Relationships, and Power. Drinking and Living the Good Life. On Getting a Life. Religion, Relativism, and Dialogue. MARKET: For college students and anyone interested in ethics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132343312
• ISBN13: 9780132343312
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Thumbs Up

The negative grad student is way too steeped in high-theory and/or elite-level student body. If you teach average students at a mid-level university/college, this is the text for you. It also speaks to aspects of their actual day-to-day lives, rather than the usual applied ethics hit-parade of controversial/media-hyped "social issues".

College Student ethics

This book has a variety of important case studies dealing with issues that confront the average college student. These case studies are good at generating discussion and getting at moral and ethical intuitions of undergraduate students. The book is clearly written and a useful supplementary text to courses in contemporary moral issues interested in dealing with issues other than those that are stereotypically dealt with in such courses.