UMS : Unit: DT9006W

Content

In this unit students will investigate aspects of contemporary urban life and reflect in an ethical way upon them. Participants will explore the impact of such influential inventions as the watch and the automobile, and such institutions of daily life as the shopping mall and suburbia. Through these explorations, participants will examine to what degree and in what ways our attitudes and actions are conditioned by the modern realities of busyness, mobility, consumerism, and the dream of home ownership

Unit code: DT9006W

Unit status: Archived (New unit)

Points: 24.0

Unit level: Postgraduate Elective

Unit discipline: Moral Theology

Delivery Mode: Face to Face

Proposing College: Whitley College

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Learning outcomes

1.	Describe ethical challenges of daily life in the 21st century;
2.	Apply resources of the Christian faith and the perspectives of ethical theory to these challenges;
3.	Critique the tasks and contexts of their own daily lives from an ethical standpoint;
4.	Formulate the ethical principles for living and describe the implications for practice; and
5.	Apply their learning within a community of faith and practice.

Unit sequence

30 points in Foundational units

Pedagogy

Lectures, Tutorials, Field Work

Indicative Bibliography

Allon, Fiona. Renovation nation: Our Obsession with Home. Sydney: New South, 2008.
Banks, Robert and R Paul Stevens (eds). The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity. Downers Grove: IVP, 1997
Ellul, Jacques. The Presence of the Kingdom. (2nd ed). Colorado Springs: Helmers & Howard, 1989
Erikson, Thomas Hylland. Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age. London: Pluto Press, 2001
Farrelly, Elizabeth. Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007
Gleeson, Brendan. Australian Heartlands: Making Space for Hope in the Suburbs. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2006
Hamilton, Clive. Growth Fetish. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2003
Hauerwas, Stanley. The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983
Holt, Simon Carey. God Next Door: Spirituality and Mission in the Neighbourhood. Brunswick East: Acorn Press, 2007
Schweiker, William and Charles Mathewes (eds). Having: Property and Possessions in Religious and Social Life. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

Assessment

Type	Description	Word count	Weight (%)
Essay	3000 word essay	3000	50.0
Personal Reflection	1500 word reflection paper	15000	25.0
Personal Reflection	1500 word reflection paper	1500	25.0

Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by John Capper on 31 Dec, 2017

Unit record last updated: 2020-10-09 17:52:20 +1100