All tests require essay writing.
In addition, each student is responsible for writing two short papers. This course is an introduction to discernment in controversial moral issues. Most class sessions will be spent in discussion with occasional role-playing in which students will enact a particular case. In the take-home portion of the exams, students will discuss a case they have not seen with reference to cases discussed in class. Answers will be evaluated by the clarity and explicitness with which they explain and justify their resolutions to the problems presented by the cases.