you will be assigned to one of four groups. Each week, one group will be
responsible for (individually) writing responses to the assigned case study for the week (picked by me, and found in the course schedule below). Since there are four groups, the groups will be on a four-week rotation, and so each person will be obligated to write three responses during the course. You will be assigned a moral theory to use in each of the three CSRs you do over the semester. The CSR is due by Sunday night of the week you are assigned to write it.
Each response should be between 500 and 1000 words in length. They should, as the name might suggest, be responses to the assigned case studies. Your response must address the case directly and should assess the situation or actions of the people in the case. Additionally, you should not answer the discussion questions found at the end of the case in the textbook; they can be a fine place to help you get going, but what I want you to do is to write your own assessment of the case.
These responses will be graded on clarity of argumentation (yes, these responses should be argumentative!) as well as
your usage of the moral theories we have learned in the course. Merely mentioning a moral theory is not enough! So, for example, if you think that raising the minimum wage would be the correct course of action for utilitarian reasons, then you ought to proceed to give an argument why utilitarians in particular should agree with you. That is, you should argue not just that raising the minimum wage would be nice, or make people feel good, but that it would have the best consequences (this line of thinking will make sense when we cover what Utilitarianism is). Moreover you should be specific about what those consequences would be, and why they support your conclusion.
The purpose of the CSR is for you to practice writing about moral issues, and using the theories we learn in class. Think of them as a kind of preparation for the Research Paper and the Proposal for that paper. Either I or my TA will give you individual feedback on your CSRs, which you should use to improve your writing and reasoning for CSRs, and the paper
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