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Students have read the story by George Orwell. Students are familiar with the history of the story. Students are to create an alternate ending to the story from a different point of view just after the narrator discovers the "angry" elephant calmly eating grass.

Students will research the ethical use of unused human embryos in research. Students must supply 4 reasons for and against use of human embryos in research designed to cure human diseases, giving 2 litigious or religious citations in support of each position. Students will focus on assigned human disease wishing to utilize such research, identifying the population subunit affected and how the disease impacts the human body. Lastly students will take a stance on whether use of human stem cells should be used in current research for the given disease. Students will be expected to write a formal research paper as well as create a model of the body organ affected by their assigned disease.

Ethical Reasoning is reasoning about right and wrong human conduct. It requires students to be able to assess their own ethical values and the social context of problems, recognize ethical issues in a variety of settings, think about how different ethical perspectives might be applied to ethical dilemmas and consider the ramifications of alternative actions. Students’ ethical self identity evolves as they practice ethical decision-making skills and learn how to describe and analyze positions on ethical issues. This rubric is intended to help faculty evaluate work samples and collections of work that demonstrate student learning about ethics. Courtesy of AAC&U: http://aacu.org/value/index.cfm