The course will introduce and justify in the learner the necessity of moral thinking and the choosing of meaningful moral positions and manners of acting and behaving in the face of various situations requiring such. For the sake of flexibility, it should encourage the learner to draw out and analyse the correctness or wrongness of behaviour from acquired communal values/culture, from one’s situatedness at the level of person, society, environment, and later from the standpoint of classic ethical principles (Greek Virtue Ethics, Augustinian/Thomistic Ethics, Kantian Deontology, Utilitarianism, and beyond).
Purposive Communication is about writing, speaking, and presenting to different audience and for various purposes. It is a three unit course that develops students’ communicative competence and
their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks that provide them opportunities for communicating effectively and appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global
context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the importance of conveying messages
responsibly. The knowledge skills, and insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines and their future careers as
they compose and produce relevant oral, written audio-visual and/or web-based output for various purposes.