This course is designed for undergraduate students with the aim of producing good citizens. It emphasizes on equipping learners with the necessary civic competence and active participation in public life. It will also help them to exercise their democratic rights and discharging their responsibilities effectively by familiarizing them with necessary civic knowledge and skills. In countries such as ours, where the process of cultivating modern constitutional and democratic values in the minds of citizens is experiencing serious challenges, largely because the country had no established civic culture and partly because these values and principles are not yet well-institutionalized, civics and ethical education remains to be imperative. To this end, the course introduces learners to the basics of civics and ethics, citizenship, morality and the goals of studying civics and ethics. It exposes students to the meanings, foundations, approaches, values and principles of ethics and civic virtue that learners must be equipped with both as citizens and professionals in their encounter with real life situations both to be morally matured and responsible while making decisions and taking actions. The course also elucidate the nature, purpose and forms of state and government, constitution, democracy and human rights, the nature of democratic citizenship, modes of cultivating civic-virtues in our citizens mainly within the context of Ethiopia.
- Teacher: Shimelis K