PHIL2203 Health Care Ethics, SP2026 D033

Dear Class,
The school requires me to post midterm marks on Brightspace. You can see them under the “Grades” tab, under “Midsemester grades.” These scores are based on a calculation of the percentage of points you have earned on the total points available so far, to this point in the semester. This includes all of the grades earned in the first half of the class: your participation grade for the first half of the semester, your philosophical journals to date, and two unit exams. You can see the marks and their meaning below:
P: Passing. 65-100%
BL: Borderline. 55-65%
U: Unsatisfactory <55%
SA: stopped attending
These grades reflect your performance on only the 50% of the course that has been graded so far, so that means that 50% of the grade is still to be determined. If your grade is not where you want it, please note that there is still time to make major improvements.
Additionally, I have also posted a Midsemester Participation grade. This is your grade for the Participation portion of your grade in the first half of the semester.. You can see details about how I calculate this grade on the “Assignment Overview” page.
Best,
Dr. M

My talk that was planned for earlier has been RESCHEDULED to this Thursday, 3/26, at 1pm. This talk will only be on Zoom–you can click on the link in the poster to attend! I would love to see some of you there. 

Best, 

Dr. M

Hi Class, 

I’m giving a talk at City Tech on a health care ethics topic this Thursday. I would love it if some of my students showed up! But no pressure, I know all of you are very busy.

Please note, you can join by Zoom by clicking the link in the poster! 

Best, 

Dr. M

Please be sure to carefully read (and attempt to understand!) the assigned reading for the class. Please also review the format for an Analytical Outline Entry. See you Tuesday!

Dr. M

This exam will be entirely objective (multiple choice, t/f, short answer). You will have access to your Philosophical Journal during the exam, but not to anything else. Best wishes for the exam to all. 

Dr. M

The title says it all!

Hi Class–

CUNY has decided to hold classes online again tomorrow. That means we will be meeting via Zoom rather than in person.

The Zoom invitation for our class is in Brightspace. You will find further instructions there too. Stay safe, see you tomorrow!

Best,

Dr. M

Hi Class—

A couple of things I want to make sure everyone knows going forward.

There is NO class tomorrow OR on Tuesday, 2/17. City Tech is closed for holidays on both days. Our next meeting will be Thursday, 2/19. We will discuss Kantianism on that day, so be sure to have done the reading.

Additionally, please note that our first unit exam is coming up on 2/26. This will be an objective test, unlike the rest of the tests this semester. We will discuss the text content and format in our study session on 2/24.

Enjoy your break!

Dr. M

I’m Dr. MacDougall, your professor for Health Care Ethics (PHIL2203). There are two things I want you to know before our first meeting on Tuesday January 27.

 

1. Most of our class updates and materials are available here on our OpenLab site. Please join our Openlab section (click on [Course Profile] in menu above) as soon as possible. You can also see the schedule and assignments there. We will use Brightspace only on an occasional basis. When we do use Brightspace it will be announced on Openlab and in class. 

 

2. This class is an Open Educational Resource (OER) Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) course. That means there is no textbook, and all readings are freely available online. This saves you money and means you can store all our readings on your hard drive, indefinitely! You can find links to class readings on the schedule page.

 

Let me know if you have any questions. I’m looking forward to meeting you.

 

Dr. MacDougall