Ethical understanding

In this subject, students extend and apply their ethical understanding capability by, for example:

• developing an appreciation of the diversity of values within the Australian and international communities and an understanding of how values change over time
• developing an understanding that legal outcomes may conflict with social, environmental, and ethical outcomes
• developing responsible and respectful attitudes towards the Australian legal system and others
• acknowledging and referencing the ideas of others
• considering the consequences of legal decisions from ethical perspectives
• examining the law from ethical perspectives
• providing reasons and evidence to support their conclusions
• understanding how the ethics in one context may be different from ethics in another
• understanding concepts of justice, fairness, and rights as interpreted by the law and by individuals and how they might differ.