Ethics of Learning (Process) about Ethics (Product)

Week 3 Learning Summary – Sunday March 9, 2014 – Saturday March 15, 2014

As we move through our course, it is important to avoid friction, misunderstanding among us over expressing opinions in our course.  Your professor takes this approach.  He believes learning at this level has two parts:  “product and process.”  “Product” is the conclusion we reach; process is how we reach our conclusions.  The focus of your professor is on “process.”  He does not seek to impose any ethical system – “product” - on students.  He is not here to indoctrinate.  Rather, he is here to help you to think through assignments to clarify and arrive at your own conclusions about ethics, the “product.”  To this end, he offers comments, asks for clarifications, and requests compliance with the requirements of assignments, which Concordia expects us to do to meet its standards.  As we journey through our course, “process,” how we help, work with each other, is as important as “product,” our personal ethical conclusions from assignments.  Let our “process” be one of courtesy, honesty, and caring, regardless of individual viewpoints about our subject, ethics, our “products.”  I thank you for taking the “high road” in your dealings with each other and your professor as we “process” some very personal “products.”  Thank you!   Dr. Rux