Media Analysis Paper-Ethical Dilemma

Assignment:
This is an assignment in which students will reflect on their ability to recognize and understand ethical dilemmas.
Understanding ethics is a graduation competency at Wilmington University.
This assignment consists of multiple parts and requires students to think about their growth and development in understanding ethics and seeing professions from multiple perspectives.

This assignment consists of 2 parts.

Part 2: Media Analysis Paper (due Week 7)

• Find a media source that depicts an ethical dilemma for a person working in your chosen profession. Your source may be real or a work of fiction, but you may not make it up yourself.
• Write a 3-5 page paper that does the following, using the media source you found and the code of ethics of your profession:
  • Describe the ethical dilemma in which the professional is involved.
  • What actions did the professional take?
  • Were those actions within the profession’s code of ethics?
  • What actions could the professional have taken to remain within the profession’s code of ethics?
  • How does the profession respond to ethical misconduct among its membership?
  • Choose any two theories from Chapters 1-8 of your text. For each of the theories, explain how the theory would view the ethical dilemma and actions taken by the professional. Would the theory regard the professional’s actions as moral or immoral?
  • Your paper should cite specific pieces of the code of ethics of your profession in answering these questions.
  • Your essay should include an APA-style cover page and references page.

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