Ethical understanding

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

• appreciating the diversity of values within Australian and international communities and developing an understanding of how values change over time
• understanding that legal outcomes may conflict with social, environmental, and ethical outcomes
• developing responsible and informed attitudes towards the Australian legal system and others
• acknowledging and referencing the ideas of others
• considering the consequences of legal decisions from ethical perspectives
• providing reasons and evidence to support their arguments and conclusions
• appreciating how context, including time, culture and power, informs thinking and the creation of law
• developing an appreciation that laws are developed from societies and, as such, generally represent the ethics and values of that society
• understanding that laws may reflect the ethics of the times and thus may necessitate change.