RS DEPARTMENT

AS Ethics


Michaelmas 2014
Class organisation and prep schedule : AS Ethics

Year 12 lessons:
Mondays 20-22; Fridays 3-6.
Prep set Friday and collected the following Monday.

Preps must be handed in on the day indicated. Unless an extension has been
negotiated with the teacher in advance.

Approx 2.5 hours should be set aside for A2 Ethics prep / reading a week.

TOPICS

Introduction to Ethical Thinking and Study Skills
Relativism and Absolutism
Utilitarianism
Kantian Ethics
Application of both theories to topic Abortion & Right to a
Child
Religious Ethics (including Natural Law)
Application of all theories to topic Euthanasia
Application of all theories to Genetic Engineering & Embryo
Research and War and Peace







Preps for Year 12*

Monday 1
st
September Questions (Brave New World)

Friday 5 September Oliphant pages 7-14 (Intro to
Relativism) Reading Bowie pages 3-10

Friday 12
th
September Bowie pages 11-22

Friday 19
th
September Prepare for essay (Reading pack)

Friday 26
th
September Oliphant pages 53-59 (Utility)

Friday 3
rd
October Bowie pages 36-50

Friday 10
th
October Extra reading including Notes on
Oliphant pages 60-69 Prepare for essay

Friday 17
th
October Reading and Notes
Oliphant pages 36-45
Extra Reading Bowie pages 52-63


HALF TERM

Friday 7
th
November Oliphant pages 46-51 and Reading
pack (prepare for essay)

Friday 14
th
November Reading and Notes (applying theories)
Oliphant pages 88-99
Reading Bowie pages 191-201

Friday 21
nd
November Oliphant pages 100-106

Friday 28
th
November Reading pack (Prepare for essay)

Friday 5
th
December Reading and Notes Oliphant pages 22-
31

Friday 12
th
December Bowie pages 23-35













CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

Friday 9
th
Jan

Friday 16
th
Jan

Friday 23
th
Jan Reading and Notes Oliphant pages 32-35
Extra reading (from pack)
Friday 30
th
Jan Prepare for essay

Friday 6
th
Feb Reading Bowie page 98-110 (Situation
Ethics)
Friday 13
th
Feb Reading and Notes Oliphant pages 72-83
(Religious Ethics)

HALF TERM


Friday 27
th
Feb Prepare for midyears

Friday 6
th
March Reading and Notes Oliphant pages 108-118
(Euthanasia)

Friday 3
th
March Bowie pages 215-224

Friday 20
st
March Reading and Notes Oliphant pages 119-133
(Embryo Research)


Friday 27
th
March Bowie pages 202-214


EASTER HOLIDAY

Friday 17
th
April Oliphant pages 136-158 (War and Peace)

Friday 24
th
April Bowie pages 277-289

Friday 1
st
May Prepare for Essay


* Preps are set from the two main text books issued at the beginning of the academic
year: OCR Religious Ethics for AS and A2 Jill Oliphant and Ethical Studies
Robert A Bowie

Students will also need to read around the subject. Class notes, articles and
chapters from a variety of texts will be issued throughout the course. (Reading
Pack)