Course Coordinator: David Hunter
Phone: +61 8313 3089
Email: david.hunter@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Level 3 Helen Mayo North

Timetable details are located on MyUni.

1	Analyse ethical problems in health care practice and policy.
2	Explain relevant ethical theories and concepts.
3	Synthesise relevant information and ideas.
4	Critique arguments using evidence and theory.
5	Defend a proposed course of action.

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This course will introduce students to the identification, analysis and resolution of ethical issues in health care practice and policy. This course is being delivered using a flipped classroom teaching modality where each week students will be expected to engage with recorded lectures &/or written online material to introduce students to key topics, concepts and theories, and model the analysis and resolution of ethical issues. It is anticipated that this material will take between 1-2 hours each week to engage with.

This core material will be developed on each week with a one hour tutorial to draw on this content to develop students’ capacity to synthesise relevant information and ideas, and make and critically evaluate arguments using logic, evidence and theory.

Contact hours: 3 hours per week, plus readings, assignments etc

Conceptual organisation:
This course is organised around the principle of developing an understanding of ethics first in the context of individuals and then in the broader social context and then finally into the global context.

As such the course will progressively equip students with ethical theories and principles by addressing specific ethical questions about specific health care practices and policies. Students will be presented with ethical issues at each layer of the model, beginning with questions about the ethics of practice. In relation to each issue, students will be asked to answer the recurring question ‘What should we do, and why?’

To help the students answer this question, they will be taught to apply, and balance, different ethical approaches such as consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics and the four principles approach. At the end of the course, all of the theories will be briefly consolidated.

A particular focus of the course will be ethical issues likely to be relevant to the future professional roles the students may take up.

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Assessment Task	Assessment  Type	Weighting	Learning course objective(s) being addressed
Ethical Underpinning Assessment	Summative	10%	1-2
Case Assessment	Summative	20%	1-4
Tutorial Participation	Summative	10%	1-5
Essay Plan	Summative	20%	1-5
Essay	Summative	40%	1-5

Ethical Underpinning Assessment: Students will be required to identify and briefly explain the ethical underpinnings of a provided policy. (200 words)

Case Assessment: Students will be provided a case based on the policy they discussed in the Ethical Underpinning Assessment – they will identify what went wrong in this case and how the policy could be altered to prevent that case from occurring. (500 words)
This will be worth 20% of their grade.

Tutorial Participation: Active participation in tutorials will be assessed throughout the semester and will count for 10%.

Essay Plan: Due just before the mid semester break each student will be required to submit an up to two page essay plan identifying the topic they intend to write their essay on, and the approach they intend to take. An example essay plan will be provided and the process explained in the seminar/tutorials. This will count for 20% of their grade.

Essay:
Due towards the end of semester each student will submit a 2000 word essay comprising of an ethical analysis on one of several topics. Sample questions will be provided, and students can also write on a topic of their choosing as long as they have sought permission and approval of the topic from the course coordinator.

Extensions
All extensions for assignments must be requested, at the latest, by the last working day before the due date of submission.   Extensions will generally be granted only on medical or genuine compassionate grounds.  Supporting documentation must be  provided at the time a student requests an extension.  Without documentation, extensions will not be granted.  Late requests for  extension will neither be accepted nor acknowledged.

Only the Course Co-ordinator(s) may grant extensions.

Supporting documentation will be required when requesting an extension. Examples of documents that are acceptable include: a  medical certificate that specifies dates of incapacity, a police report (in the case of lost computers, car & household theft etc.), a  letter from a Student Counsellor, Education and Welfare Officer (EWO) or Disability Liaison Officer that provides an assessment of  compassionate circumstances, or a letter from an independent external counsellor or appropriate professional able to verify the  student’s situation.  The length of any extension granted will take into account the period and severity of any incapacity or impact  on the student.  Extensions of more than 10 days will not be granted except in exceptional circumstances.

Late submission
Marks will be deducted when assignments for which no extension has been granted are handed in late.

All assignments, including those handed in late, will be assessed on their merits.  In the case of late assignments where no extension has been granted, 5 percentage points of the total marks possible per day will be deducted.  If an assignment that is 2  days late is awarded 65% on its merits, the mark will then be reduced by 10% (5% per day for 2 days) to 55%.  If that same  assignment is 4 days late, the mark will be reduced by 20% (5% per day for 4 days) to 45%, and so on.

The School of Public Health reserves the right to refuse to accept an assignment that is more than 7 days late.

Assignments submitted after the due date may not be graded in time to be returned on the listed return dates.

Students submitting examinable written work who request (and receive) an extension that takes them beyond the examination  period are advised that there is no guarantee that their grades will be processed in time to meet usual University deadlines.

Resubmission
If a student is dissatisfied with an assessment grade they should follow the StudentGrievance Resolution Process  https://www.adelaide.edu.au/student/grievance/process/>.  Students who are not satisfied with a particular assessment result should raise their concerns with Course Co-ordinator(s) in the first instance.  This must be done within 10 business days of the  date of notification of the result.  Resubmission of any assignment is subject to the agreement of the Course Co-ordinator(s) and  will only be permitted for the most compelling of reasons.