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Name: Theory-Building Activities: Rights
ID: m13758
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module is designed to teach students about rights by presenting a framwork for justifying rights claims and then grounding them in everyday practice. Students learn the framework; key elements are summarized in this module. Then they are assigned a right claim which they validate and contextualize using this framework. This module is being developed as a part of an NSF-funded project, "Collaborative Development of Ethics Across the Curriculum Resources and Sharing of Best Practices," NSF SES 0551779.
Subject: Humanities
Keywords: Codes of Ethics, Computer Ethics, Duties, Engineering Ethics, Ethics, Rights
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Copyright Holders: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Maintainers: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Latest version: 1.4 (history)
First publication date: Jul 20, 2006 12:40 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Mar 2, 2007 9:07 am US/Central
Module XML: m13758_1.4.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.6 Dec 14, 2007 5:23 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes: 
Traced down rights claims to Bill Baker and Murray Muspratt.  Made other minor edits.  Added paragraph on sharing rights tables with classmates.
Version: 1.5 Nov 28, 2007 10:57 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes: 
Added section headings and translated rights claims into English.
Version: 1.4 Mar 2, 2007 9:07 am US/Central by William Frey Currently viewing this version.
Changes: 
Updated abstract
Version: 1.3 Jan 6, 2007 8:29 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes: 
Stylistic changes along with the addition of putative rights from CIAPR text on engineering ethics
Version: 1.2 Jan 5, 2007 6:00 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes: 
Stylistic changes and addition of putative rights from Munoz-Roman, Etica en la practica profesional de la ingenieria
Version: 1.1 Aug 6, 2006 8:07 am GMT-5 by William Frey
Changes: 
Concluding debriefing remarks added to have students reflect on the importance of justifying and contextualizing rights claims

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