Reflect on the three key
lessons you take away from the course. Reflect on your perceived value of this
course. Include both positive and negative aspects of your experience. What
might you have done to improve your learning experience? How might the University
or your instructor provide additional support for your learning? Were their
topics covered that seem particularly relevant or irrelevant to your
experiences and to what you expect to come in future courses?
The three key lessons from
this course would be: an improved awareness of critical thinking skills,
although not specific to the syllabus of the course. Critical thinking is an
important cognitive skill, which requires constant maintenance, upkeep and
mental agility.
The second would be that
religion, morality and ethical behavior might not be seminomas with each other.
Their individual and collective contributions toward each other enhance the characteristics
and virtues that each have to offer an individual who has the critical thinking
skills to understand the value they have individually, and in conjunction with
one another. The last take away would be that one must decide for oneself based
upon many sources of information, inspiration and influence that is available
to persuade one to accept or reject what might be considered as moral or
ethical.
In my opinion, for a course
of this magnitude to be truly effective, the university might consider a more
involved approach to ethics and morality. In other words, more involvement from
student to student and student to instructor perspectives, with more team
involvement and less discussion questions, team involvement although tricky in
the academic world can and does relate to the business world and team dynamics
including the amount of contribution team members display.
The topics covered thorough
out the course were for the most part spot-on except one, Gun Control. I thought it in poor taste for a university
to consider gun control as a moralistic or ethical issue from the standpoint of
a Constitutional right. There are more individuals killed per year due to
vehicular manslaughter and drunk drivers combined than from firearms for
defense or in-commission of a crime. One is an unalienable God given right, and
the other is a privilege, which we all know a special right or advantage available
only to a particular person or group of people, such as the privilege of
driving.
Privileges and their moral
and ethical quandaries are the items that should up for debate in academia and
not Constitutional rights. The
Constitution doesn't grant or create rights; it recognizes and protects rights
that inherently exist. The late Senator Byrd and I may have disagreed on a
number of things. One for which we were both in total agreement with is that
ALL schools, universities and learning institutions should be required to teach
Constitutional law. The same law that most politician’s use against the
mindless sheep of society, in a manner to heard the unsuspecting masses. Should
we educate a contingency of academic scholars in Constitutional law, there
would be less rhetoric and more precision in the manner by which our elected
officials approach their constituents.
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