Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics)
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Overview
The Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) aims to give graduates the theoretical and analytic tools to understand the central issues in professional and applied ethics.
Organisational change, political change, wars, globalisation, new technologies and practices, corporate collapses, corruption, scandals in the health and research sectors, environmental disasters, conflicts of interest, all raise distinctive and pressing issues of policy and practice. Finding practical and ethically sustainable solutions requires a thorough understanding of both the ethical and the empirical aspects of the situation.
Completion of this course will equip graduates to conduct research on and analyse key ethical concepts and arguments in their field of specialisation, enabling them to contribute to policy discussion and development in a wide range of professional, institutional and industry settings. There is scope for students to follow their own interests, with a substantial thesis component and specialisations such as the ethics of health care, computing, business, politics and criminal justice; as well as the broad themes of bioethics and global justice.
The course has been developed, and is coordinated, by staff from the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE). The Centre is a partnership between the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Charles Sturt University. CAPPE is an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre and constitutes the largest concentration of philosophers working on applied philosophy and public ethics in the world.
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Structure
- 100 point program. Thesis option available.
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Career outcomes
Graduates will be equipped to contribute to policy discussion and development in a wide range of professional, institutional and industry settings.
Student profiles
John-Paul Hougaz,
Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) student
"The course is a great way to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds on issues that affect all aspects of society. It's a fascinating area of study; one that is focused on real problems and their solutions. The analytical skills one develops could be used in a wide range of fields and disciplines, as in almost every industry there is a need to be able to face problems with a rational and inquisitive mind".
Further details
- Subject descriptions, timetable information and entry requirements:
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