PHIL241-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Special Topic: Freedom, Protest and Consent

This occurrence is not offered in 2025

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Special Topic: Freedom, Protest and Consent

We’ve heard it said that sticks and stones may break bones, but words will never hurt. Is this true? What power do our words have and why does it matter whether and how we use them? This course focuses on the ethics of communication: how and why we should communicate. We will do this through an in-depth analysis of the moral issues surrounding consent, free speech and protest. Along the way, we will work on developing two related skills: the ability to analyze complex moral issues and the ability to communicate an informed and persuasive position on such issues.

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level in PHIL, or
any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA or the BSc.

Course Coordinator

Elizabeth Stewart

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Introductory Speech 5%
Informative Speech Outline 10%
Informative Speech 20%
Audience Questionnaire 5%
Argument Map 10%
Persuasive Speech 20%
Letter to the Editor 20%
Participation 10%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $894.00

International fee $4,100.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

All PHIL241 Occurrences

  • PHIL241-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025 - Not Offered