CASE ANALYSIS INSTRUCTIONS
You will analyze 8 cases during this course. There is one case analysis due at the end of each module/week. In evaluating your case analyses, instructors will apply the Case Analysis Grading Rubric. Each case analysis should be a 5–7 pages in length, and follow the current APA guidelines. Title page and reference page in current APA formatting is required.
The basic guidelines for analyzing ethical cases are as follows:
1. Identify the Issues

a. What are the major moral or ethical issues raised by the case?
b. What are the major factual issues raised by the case?
c. What are the major conceptual issues raised by this case?
d. Who are the major stakeholders in this case?
e. How are the issues in this case related to making ethical decisions?

2. Outline the Options
a. What are the major views on the conceptual issues raised by this case?
b. What are the main alternative actions or policies that might be followed in responding to the ethical issues in this case?
c. What facts are unknown or disputed that might be relevant to deciding this case (may require research to determine some facts)?

3. Construct Ethical Arguments
a. Determine which of the four moral standards (egoism, natural law, utilitarianism, and respect for persons) apply to this case.
b. Identify the moral principles that can be invoked to support a conclusion as to what ought to be done ethically in this case or similar cases.
c. Determine whether the different moral standards yield converging or diverging judgments about what ought to be done.

4. Evaluate the Arguments for each Option
a. Weigh the ethical reasons and arguments for each option in terms of their relative importance, assigning weights to each consideration where:
3 = very important consideration
2 = somewhat important consideration
1 = a consideration of only minor importance
b. Determine whether there are any unwarranted factual assumptions that need to be examined in each argument. 

c. Determine whether there are any unresolved conceptual issues in each argument.
d. Determine whether any of the arguments involve fallacies or logical errors.

5. Make a Decision
a. Decide which of the identified options you would recommend or judge to be the ethically best way to deal with the issue presented in this case based upon which option has the strongest ethical reasons behind it.
b. Determine how a critic of your position might try to argue against it using other ethical reasons, and present a rebuttal or counter-argument in defense of your judgment.

Guidelines: For Preparing Ethical Case Analyses
It is useful to discuss your case with at least one other person before you sit down to write up your case analysis. Following your case discussion, students are required to prepare a short analysis of the case in which you develop and defend your own ethical analysis of the case.

The purpose of these reports is to give you a chance to work out your own view about the issues raised by each case and to practice the procedure for analyzing ethical dilemmas. It is important that you include biblical scriptures to defend your stance.