1. General information
Course:
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Code:
16530
Type:
CORE COURSE
ECTS credits:
6
Degree:
401 - UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMME IN AUDIOVISUAL COMMUNICATION
Academic year:
2022-23
Center:
12 - FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
Group(s):
30
Year:
4
Duration:
First semester
Main language:
Spanish
Second language:
Use of additional languages:
English Friendly:
Y
Web site:
Bilingual:
N
Lecturer:
SANTIAGO ARROYO SERRANO
- Group(s):
30
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
FILOSOFÍA, ANTROPOL, SOCIOL Y ESTÉTICA
Santiago.ArroyoSerra@uclm.es
Lecturer:
IGNACIO ESCUTIA DOMÍNGUEZ
- Group(s):
30
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y Humanidades 5.02; Facultad de Comunicación 1.06
FILOSOFÍA, ANTROPOL, SOCIOL Y ESTÉTICA
Ignacio.Escutia@uclm.es
2. Pre-Requisites
Not established
3. Justification in the curriculum, relation to other subjects and to the profession
Not established
4. Degree competences achieved in this course
| Course competences | |
|---|---|
| Code | Description |
| CB03 | Gather and interpret relevant data (usually within the area of study) in order to make value judgements that include a reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues. |
| CE04 | Know and decode the industrial and business phenomena of the audiovisual sector. |
| CG01 | Know the essential characteristics of communication, its elements and results, with the aim of understanding the communicative phenomena that occur in today's society. |
| CG04 | Expose the results of academic work in writing, orally or by other means, in accordance with the canons of the communication disciplines. |
| CG05 | Know the constitutional values, ethical principles and deontological rules applying to audiovisual communication. |
| CG06 | Know the state of the world and its recent historical evolution as well as acquiring the concepts necessary for understanding its political, economic, technological and sociocultural dimensions in such a way that they serve as an instrument in the resolution of professional problems and challenges. |
| CG07 | Acquire the ability to work in a team, face collective challenges and cooperatively solve problems, respecting the diversity of the participants and of their contributions. |
5. Objectives or Learning Outcomes
| Course learning outcomes | |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| Recognise and understand the main conceptual approaches related to digital cultures and contemporary technology. | |
| Apply the principles of professional ethics and the ethical principles set out in the codes of ethics. | |
| Handle the basic techniques of audiovisual production, both for conventional (television, cinema, radio) and contemporary (web, social networks) formats. | |
| Pitch script proposals for commercial exploitation. | |
| Examine the fundamental elements of the language of audiovisual communication in the process of composing information for transmission. | |
| Become familiar with the processes of creation, design and production of audiovisual formats and programmes. | |
| Acquire a global and diachronic vision of the dominant models and strategies in the social history of communication. | |
| Additional outcomes | |
| Not established. |
6. Units / Contents
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Unit 1: Audiovisual communication in the transnational public sphere
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Unit 1.1: Public sphere and democracy
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Unit 1.2: Problems and challenges of communication in digital society
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Unit 2: Objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity in the communication construction
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Unit 2.1: Truth, objectivity and power
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Unit 2.2: Subjectivity, anthropocentrism and science
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Unit 2.3: Intersubjectivity I: Husserl and the replication of the transcendental ego
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Unit 2.4: Intersubjectivity II: Habermas and the theory of communicative action
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Unit 2.5: Philosophical 'linguistic turn' and postmodernity
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Unit 3: Ethics and Law distinction
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Unit 4: Ethics in globalization and multicultural world: the Human Rights
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Unit 4.1: Multiculturality, globalization, rights and difference
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Unit 4.2: Genealogy of the Human Rights
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Unit 4.3: Human Rights I: globalization, right to difference and current debates about
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Unit 4.4: Human Rights II: Universalism, truth and power
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Unit 4.5: The problem of `universalism¿ from Gianni Vattimo¿s thought
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Unit 4.6: Ontology of the present, hermeneutics of indignation
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Unit 5: Professional Ethics
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Unit 5.1: Professions and profesional ethics principles
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Unit 5.2: Deontological codes and self-regulation
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Unit 5.3: Habits, values and ethical conducts in audiovisual communication
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Unit 6: Case studies in information, fiction and publicity areas
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Unit 6.1: Treatment of world¿s poor people
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Unit 6.2: Treatment of Women
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Unit 6.3: Personal privacy
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Unit 6.4: Narrativity: Rorty and Nussbaum
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Unit 6.5: Banality of evil
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Unit 6.6: Emotion or/and thinking
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Unit 6.7: Consumerism, publicity and consumer autonomy
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Unit 6.8: Ethical problems of intelectual property
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Unit 6.9: Moral identity in social media
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Unit 6.10: Other issues
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Unit 7: Ethical assessment of audiovisual communication products
7. Activities, Units/Modules and Methodology
| Training Activity | Methodology | Related Competences (only degrees before RD 822/2021) | ECTS | Hours | As | Com | Description | |
| Class Attendance (theory) [ON-SITE] | Lectures | CB03 CG04 CG05 CG06 | 0.88 | 22 | N | N | ||
| Workshops or seminars [ON-SITE] | Workshops and Seminars | CB03 CG04 CG05 CG06 CG07 | 0.92 | 23 | Y | N | ||
| Writing of reports or projects [OFF-SITE] | Combination of methods | CB03 CG04 CG05 CG06 CG07 | 1.52 | 38 | Y | N | ||
| Group tutoring sessions [ON-SITE] | Guided or supervised work | CB03 CG04 CG05 CG06 CG07 | 0.6 | 15 | N | N | ||
| Study and Exam Preparation [OFF-SITE] | Self-study | CB03 CG04 CG05 CG06 CG07 | 2.08 | 52 | Y | Y | ||
| Total: | 6 | 150 | ||||||
| Total credits of in-class work: 2.4 | Total class time hours: 60 | |||||||
| Total credits of out of class work: 3.6 | Total hours of out of class work: 90 | |||||||
As: Assessable training activity Com: Training activity of compulsory overcoming (It will be essential to overcome both continuous and non-continuous assessment).
8. Evaluation criteria and Grading System
| Evaluation System | Continuous assessment | Non-continuous evaluation * | Description |
| Theoretical papers assessment | 0.00% | 10.00% | |
| Final test | 20.00% | 20.00% | |
| Other methods of assessment | 30.00% | 0.00% | |
| Fieldwork assessment | 15.00% | 15.00% | |
| Progress Tests | 15.00% | 0.00% | |
| Portfolio assessment | 10.00% | 10.00% | |
| Projects | 0.00% | 30.00% | |
| Theoretical papers assessment | 0.00% | 15.00% | |
| Assessment of active participation | 10.00% | 0.00% | |
| Total: | 100.00% | 100.00% |
According to art. 4 of the UCLM Student Evaluation Regulations, it must be provided to students who cannot regularly attend face-to-face training activities the passing of the subject, having the right (art. 12.2) to be globally graded, in 2 annual calls per subject , an ordinary and an extraordinary one (evaluating 100% of the competences).
Evaluation criteria for the final exam:
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Continuous assessment:This plan could be readapted and changed in some points on the basis of the application of any extraordinary measures related to the pandemic of COVID-19. Nevertheless, even in this circumstance, percentages will be tried to be remain unchanged as much as possible.
It is NOT necessary to get a minimum grade on each activity of the evaluation plan to pass the course.
Plagiarism and standard spell checking rules will be applied to all the degree.
Passing grades will be kept for the extraordinary call as well as for next year calls.
It is not necessary to get a minimum grade on each activity of the evaluation plan neither in the final assessment test to pass the course.
Students who take part in ¿Ethics observatory¿ activity are able to get until 20% of increase in their final grade as long as their attendance to the Seminar about ethics matters is more than 80%. -
Non-continuous evaluation:It is not necessary to get a minimum grade on each activity of the evaluation plan neither in the final assessment test to pass the course.
Plagiarism and standard spell checking rules will be applied to all the degree.
Passing grades will be kept for the extraordinary call as well as for next year calls.
Specifications for the resit/retake exam:
It is not necessary to get a minimum grade on each activity of the evaluation plan neither in the final assessment test to pass the course.
Passing grades will be kept for the extraordinary call as well as for next year calls.
Passing grades will be kept for the extraordinary call as well as for next year calls.
Specifications for the second resit / retake exam:
It is not necessary to get a minimum grade on each activity of the evaluation plan neither in the final assessment test to pass the course.
Passing grades will be kept for the extraordinary call as well as for next year calls.
Passing grades will be kept for the extraordinary call as well as for next year calls.
9. Assignments, course calendar and important dates
| Not related to the syllabus/contents | |
|---|---|
| Hours | hours |
| Unit 1 (de 7): Audiovisual communication in the transnational public sphere | |
|---|---|
| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 3 |
| Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] | 2 |
| Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] | 6 |
| Unit 2 (de 7): Objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity in the communication construction | |
|---|---|
| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 3 |
| Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] | 1 |
| Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] | 6 |
| Unit 3 (de 7): Ethics and Law distinction | |
|---|---|
| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 3 |
| Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] | 1 |
| Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] | 6 |
| Unit 4 (de 7): Ethics in globalization and multicultural world: the Human Rights | |
|---|---|
| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 6 |
| Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] | 2 |
| Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] | 12 |
| Unit 5 (de 7): Professional Ethics | |
|---|---|
| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 6 |
| Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] | 2 |
| Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] | 10 |
| Unit 6 (de 7): Case studies in information, fiction and publicity areas | |
|---|---|
| Activities | Hours |
| Workshops or seminars [PRESENCIAL][Workshops and Seminars] | 21 |
| Writing of reports or projects [AUTÓNOMA][Combination of methods] | 28 |
| Group tutoring sessions [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work] | 7 |
| Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] | 10 |
| Unit 7 (de 7): Ethical assessment of audiovisual communication products | |
|---|---|
| Activities | Hours |
| Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] | 1 |
| Workshops or seminars [PRESENCIAL][Workshops and Seminars] | 2 |
| Writing of reports or projects [AUTÓNOMA][Combination of methods] | 10 |
| Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] | 2 |
| Global activity | |
|---|---|
| Activities | hours |
10. Bibliography and Sources
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| AZNAR, HUGO | Ética de la Comunicación y nuevos retos sociales | Barcelona | Paidós | 2005 | |||||
| BALIBAR, ÉTIENNE | Violencias, identidades y civilidad. Para una cultura política global | Barcelona | Gedisa | 978-84-9784-063-7 | 2005 | https://gedisa.com/ficha.aspx?idcol=1000&cod=310010&titulo=Violencias%2c-identidades-y-civilidad&aut=Balibar,%20%C3%89tienne#.Yrg43nZBzIU | |||
| BENHABIB, SEYLA | Otro universalismo: Sobre la unidad y diversidad de los derechos humanos | Isegoría. Revista de Filosofía Moral y Política, nº39, julio-diciembre (2008) pp. 175-203 | 1130-2097 | 2008 | https://isegoria.revistas.csic.es/index.php/isegoria/article/view/627/628 | ||||
| CHOI, M., GLASSMAN, M y CRISTOL, D. | What it means to be a citizen in the internet age: Development of a reliable and valid digital citizenship scale | Computers & Education 107 | 2017 | ||||||
| CODINA, MÓNICA | Apuntes para una deontología de la comunicación | Pamplona | Eunsa | 2008 | |||||
| COLLSTE, GÖRAN | Ethics and Communication: Global Perspectives | London/New York | Rowman & Littlefield International | 2016 | |||||
| CONILL, JESÚS MARCIAL y GOZÁLVEZ, VICENT (coords.) | Ética de la Comunicación y nuevos retos sociales | Barcelona | Gedisa | 2004 | |||||
| DI CESARE, DONATELLA | Extranjeros residentes. Una filosofía de la migración | Buenos Aires | Amorrortu | 978-95-0518-300-5 | 2020 | https://www.amorrortueditores.com/papel/9789505183005/Extranjeros+residentes | |||
| ESPINOSA ANTÓN, FRANCISCO JAVIER | Inventores de la paz, soñadores de Europa. Siglo de la Ilustración | Madrid | Biblioteca Nueva | 978-84-9940-570-4 | 2012 | https://malpasoycia.es/libreria/inventores-de-la-paz/ | |||
| ESPOSITO, ROBERTO | Comunidad, inmunidad y biopolítica | Barcelona | Herder | 978-84-254-2600-1 | 2009 | https://www.herdereditorial.com/comunidad-inmunidad-biopolitica_1 | |||
| ESS, CHARLES | Digital Media Ethics | Cambridge | Polity | 2020 | |||||
| FABRIS, ADRIANO | El giro lingüístico: hermenéutica y análisis del lenguaje | Tres Cantos (Madrid) | Akal | 84-460-1519-6 | 2001 | https://www.akal.com/libro/el-giro-linguistico-hermeneutica-y-analisis-del-lenguaje_32275/ | |||
| FABRIS, ADRIANO | Ehics of information and communication technologies | Cham, Switzerland | Springer | 978-3-319-75511-3 | 2018 | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-75511-3 | |||
| FRAZER, NANCY | Escalas de justicia | Barcelona | Herder | 2008 | |||||
| GADAMER, HANS-GEORG | El giro hermenéutico | Madrid | Cátedra | 978-84-376-1626-1 | 2007 | https://www.catedra.com/libro/teorema-serie-mayor/el-giro-hermeneutico-hans-george-gadamer-9788437616261/ | |||
| GADAMER, HANS-GEORG | Verdad y método (I) | Salamanca | Ediciones Sígueme | 978-84-301-0463-5 | 2017 | http://www.sigueme.es/libros/verdad-y-metodo-i.html | |||
| GADAMER, HANS-GEORG | Verdad y método (II) | Salamanca | Ediciones Sígueme | 978-84-301-1180-8 | 2015 | http://www.sigueme.es/libros/verdad-y-metodo-ii.html | |||
| GARCÍA, FRANCISCO | Ética y narración audiovisual | En F. García García & M. Rajas, (Ed.), Narraciones audiovisuales: el relato | Madrid | Icono 14 Editorial | 2011 | ||||
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| HERNÁNDEZ, ANTONIO & ESPINOSA, FRANCISCO JAVIER [Coords.] | Razón, persona y política. Algunas perspectivas filosóficas | Cuenca | Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha | 84-89492-37-9 | 1996 | ||||
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| LINGREN, SIMON | Data Theory | Cambridge | Polity, | 2020 | |||||
| LÓPEZ, BILY [Coord.] | Hermenéutica, lenguaje y violencia: perspectivas en el Siglo XXI | Sevilla - Ciudad de México | Fénix Filosofía Ed. - Ed. UNAM | 978-84-120078-9-3 | 2020 | https://publicacionesfenixeditora.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/hermeneutica-lenguaje-y-violencia-perspectivas-en-el-siglo-xxi/ | |||
| MALDONADO, REBECA [Coord.] | Dimensiones del habitar. Ontología política poética | Ciudad de México | UNAM - Akal | 2022 | |||||
| MUÑOZ, JUAN JOSÉ | De Casablanca a Solas. La creatividad ética en cine y televisión | Madrid | Eunsa | 2005 | |||||
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| VATTIMO, GIANNI | Adiós a la verdad | Barcelona | Gedisa | 978-84-9784-167-2 | 2010 | https://gedisa.com/ficha.aspx?idcol=300&cod=302591&titulo=Adi%c3%b3s-a-la-verdad&aut=Vattimo,%20Gianni#.Yrg6FXZBzIU | |||
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