OVERVIEW CALENDAR INSTRUCTOR PEOPLE RESOURCES SYLLABUS COURSE UNITS DEPARTMENT CSUS	Sense and Nonsense of Social Research California State University, Sacramento	Unit 1: Getting Started Unit 2: Research Project: Ethics of American Youth Unit 3: Title of course section Unit 4: Title of course section Unit 5: Title of course section
	Unit 2: Research Project Ethics of American Youth Unit Goals and Objectives   You should know characteristics of the contemporary American youth as portrayed by Josephson Institute of Ethics. Reflect upon your moral/ethical behavior during your high school and college days. Observe moral/ethical conducts of your peers on campus. Select a component of ethics and generate 10 questions to examine it. Lecture Notes  Ethics of American Youth (Power Point slides)   Assigned Readings  Josephson Institute of American Youth (library)   Group Activities  Form groups based on the substantive issues of ethics. Communicate by E-mail, exchanging questionnaires developed individually.   Exercises Survey   Discussion Groups  Topics for discussion: Are older people more ethnical? Are students of the 60's more ethical than those of the 90's? Which is more ethnical: materialistic or philosophical?   Web Resources       Library Resources     Assessment     Submit questions or comments to the class discussion list (link to your listserv or listproc address) or to the instructor at yourname@school.edu. OVERVIEW / CALENDAR / INSTRUCTOR / RESOURCES / SYLLABUS / COURSE UNITS DEPARTMENT / CSUS Page updated: February 7, 2000