LDRS 612 Justice and Forgiveness

Completion of this course will involve: i) Understanding the nature of social justice (and injustice) with the ability to identify relevant practices across a range of cultural settings. ii) Comprehension of various forms of forgiveness (especially shallow vs. authentic forms), techniques for fostering forgiveness and its benefits. iii) Investigation of the role of memory (or lack thereof) in both justice and forgiveness, e.g. the role of memorials in preventing future injustice, the impossibility of forgiveness if injustice is forgotten or denied, etc.

Credits

3

Student Learning Outcomes

1. 1. Differentiate among distributive justice, procedural justice, retributive justice, and restorative justice.
2. 2. Develop the stance of servant-leadership within the realm of justice as practiced by the individual within personal and professional relationships and within organizational, systemic, and global settings.
3. 3. Compare and contrast the stages of moral development as described by Kohlberg and Gilligan.
4. 4. Evaluate the gender differences and apply those differences to the construct of justice.
5. 5. Examine the role of forgiveness in restorative justice and right relationship.
6. 6. Integrate Noddings’ ethic of caring with justice, judgment, and right relationship.
7. 7. Examine and appropriate the lessons of historical events regarding justice and forgiveness (Native American experience in the US, apartheid in South Africa, the Holocaust and prison camps of WW II, the 911 experience in the US, etc.).