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• Week 1 forum discusses responsibility, integrity, and civic discourse, focusing on discourse, cooperation, and trust.
• Bond University acknowledges the Kombumerri people as the traditional owners and custodians of the land and pays respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.

Introductions

• Alison (Ali) Taylor is the subject coordinator and can be reached at [email protected] or in office 1c_3_76.
• The teaching team includes Nico Agliata, Sommer Brameld, Olivia Meredith, and Lu Zhao.
• Consults can be found at the Foyer of 1C, Level 3.

Course Objectives

• The subject will be introduced.
• The aims of the subject and assessment methods will be presented.
• Popular models of cooperation and conflict will be considered.
• The course will outline the limits of these models by emphasizing embracing uncertainty.

Degree Integration

• This course aims to contribute to becoming a capable individual, effective collaborator, and global citizen.
• Bond University aims to instill inclusiveness, valuing diversity, and respecting cultural traditions.
• Graduates should demonstrate responsibility, accountability, integrity, professionalism, and ethical decision-making.

Assessments

• Tutorial participation is worth 20% of grade.
• Quizzes are worth 20% of final grade and will include multiple-choice and short answer questions.
• An in-class, closed-book quiz will be completed in week 5 forum.
• An essay and viva are worth 30% of the final grade.
• The essay and Viva are Friday week 8, Viva - tutorials week 9.
• Reflective journals are worth 30% of the assessment and are due Friday week 12.
• There will be 6 questions available, students must choose and respond to 3 (up to 10 marks available for each response).

Compulsory online modules

• Students must complete them before week 6 to avoid sanctions.
• The Academic Integrity module covers the importance of academic integrity, examples of misconduct, and the proper use of AI.
• The Safe & Respectful Community module covers managing relationships, consent, sexual health, and building healthy relationships.

Academic Integrity Module

• Academic Integrity at Bond includes honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, courage, and professionalism
• The Academic Integrity module can assist with understanding how to use AI such as ChatGPT.
• The module can be accessed through iLearn, and takes 30 minutes to complete.
• To pass you must achieve 80% in both Academic Misconduct and Avoiding Plagiarism quizes.

Responsible Action and Integrity

• Identifying, reflecting, and interrogating values and stances.
• Being open to changing your values when apt.
• Developing moral agency and successfully taking life seriously.
• Responding to responsibilities, respecting others, and communicating well.
• Balancing these skillsets in personal, professional, and communal lives.

Recognizing Difference

• Ethics cannot prescribe the character of meaning for each individual's life trajectory.
• The course will give tools to reconsider decision-making frameworks and challenge certainty.
• The course will aim to develop reflective awareness and productive methods of articulating results.

Limits of Theories

• Moral theories critically unpack complex dilemmas.
• They offer heuristics for making sense of intuitions.
• Applying moral reasoning should be done critically and patiently.

Cooperation Models

• Examples of cooperation models include Hobbesian Traps, Tragedy of the Commons, and the "Split or Steal" game (Golden Balls).

Rethinking Models

• Ostrom's issue is that solving a commons problem or cooperation trap often involves adding an external authority to govern it.
• Policy makers tend to see participants in these traps as unable to change their dilemma.
• Ostrom notes instances where solutions should be bottom up.

Ostrom's Insights

• Solutions to problems need not be a single solution, there can be many.
• Optimal institutional solutions cannot be imposed at low cost by external authorities.
• "Getting the institutional right" is a difficult, time-consuming, and conflict-invoking process.
• A sceptical view should be taken regarding intuitive institutional solutions.

Lord of the Flies

• Rutger Bregman's work undoes the cultural mythology about having a simple, neat, explanation that assumes the worst of people, referencing Lord of the Flies.

Jacob Bronowski

• Absolute certainty is a dangerous way of seeing the world, as noted by Bronowski.
• Bronowski highlights the Principle of Uncertainty.

Fin

• Tutorials begin this week.
• Tutors can be contacted via email or during consultation.