Religion and ethics

33% (2 hour exam; three sections: A - two extended response questions; B - One two-part essay on an excerpt; C - One extended essay question)

Significant concepts in issues or debates in religion and ethics

• Environmental issues

• Equality

A study of three ethical theories

• Utilitarianism

• Situation Ethics

• Natural Moral Law

Application of ethical theories to issues of importance

• War and peace

• Sexual Ethics

Ethical language

• Meta-ethics

• The relationship between religion and morality

Deontology, Virtue Ethics and the works of scholars

• A comparison of the work of Immanuel Kant and Aristotle with regard to Deontology and Virtue Ethics respectively

Medical ethics: beginning and end of life issues

• Issues in medical ethics with a focus on beginning and end of life debates