Project Guidelines and Rubric
Competencies
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:
Use ethical frameworks in decision-making
Analyze the impacts of a professional field’s code of ethics
Recommend ethical improvements to a solution
Overview
People often find themselves in situations where they need to make decisions or propose solutions that are well supported and based on established ethical principles. Throughout this course, you have selected a case study, looked at ethical frameworks and related principles, and considered a set of professional codes of ethics related to your selected case study. For this project, you will take that information and incorporate it into the two parts of this project, analyzing a case study, presenting the related facts, suggesting an equitable solution, and applying relevant ethical frameworks toward a final solution.
Directions
For your project, choose the following:
A case study
An ethical framework
A professional code of ethics
Use the same case study, ethical framework, and professional code of ethics you selected earlier in this course.
Specifically, you must address the following criteria:
Part One: Case Analysis
In this section, you will introduce the audience to the key problems and issues of the case. You will also analyze the ethical components of the case and determine the most ethically justifiable course of action from a set of solutions.
Describe the background of the case. In your description, make sure you include:
The summary of the case
The people and events behind the case
A citation of your chosen case study.
Explain the ethical issues of the case. In your explanation, make sure you include:
The key members
The significance of the case.
Determine the principles from your chosen ethical framework that apply to the case.
Explain how the ethical framework can be used to examine the ethical issues of the case.
Explain how your chosen professional code of ethics applies to your case.
Identify possible solutions to the case.
Describe the strengths and limitations of each solution you identified.
Recommend a solution from the ones you identified. Then, justify your recommendation as the most ethical solution.
Describe the ethical implications of your solution.
Part Two: Reflection
In this section, you will reflect on your experience writing a case analysis. You will also discuss how your personal ethics may have influenced your solution to the case.
Describe your experience analyzing the case. In your description, make sure you include:
The difficult choices you had to make
Your moral intuition of the case
Discuss how your personal ethics helped to guide your conclusions. In your discussion, make sure you include:
Specific examples of ethical principles from the framework you used
How the solution may have been different if you had used a different ethical framework
Describe how the identified professional code of ethics aligns to your interests or values.
Explain the importance of this code of ethics in society.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must:
Submit the completed paper as a 3- to-5-page Microsoft Word document. You must cite your case study, your chosen ethical framework and professional code of ethics, but no other sources are required. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
