AZA1371: UNIT SCHEDULE

Below is an outline of the topics of the lectures, and the prescribed reading for each week. Note that,
as you work through the Study Guide, it may direct you to read some of Singer, or some of the
readings at the back of the Study Guide: you must do this reading too! It is an important part of the
prescribed reading for each week.
Weekly
Topic Reading / Assessment due dates
Lecture
1.1 (3 March) Introduction/Overview None

1.2 What is wrong with killing? (No tutorial) Study Guide, 1.11.2

2.1 (10 March) Consequentialism Study Guide, 1.3

2.2 Utilitarianism (Tutorials begin in week 2)

3.1 (17 March) Rights-based accounts 1 Study Guide, 1.4

3.2 Rights-based accounts 2 Study Guide, 1.5

Revisiting consequentialism,
4.1 (24 March) Study Guide, 1.6
Settling moral debates
4.2 Self-defense Study Guide, 2.12.2
MID SEMESTER BREAK (25 March 3 April)

5.1 (7 April) Film: A Reasonable Man Essay 1 due

6.1 (14 April) Self-defense Study Guide, 2.32.4

6.2 Hobbes on self-defence Study Guide, 2.52.6

7.1 (21 April) Equality, race, species 1 Study Guide, 3.13.2

7.2 Equality, race, species 2 Study Guide, 3.33.4

8.1 (28 April) Killing other animals Study Guide 3.53.6

8.2 Killing other animals

9.1 (5 May) Abortion Study Guide, 4.14.3

9.2 Abortion and consequentialism Study Guide, 4.44.5

Study Guide, 4.64.8
10.1 (12 May) Abortion and feminism
Essay 2 due
10.2 Abortion (cont.)

11.1 (19 May) Virtue ethics and impartiality Study Guide, 5.15.2

11.2 Relativism Study Guide, 5.35.4

12.1 (26 May) Review

12.2 Review
No formal assessment is undertaken
SWOT VAC (30 May-3 June) SWOT VAC