Media Release
Mangaluru, Aug 27: The departments of Political Science and Psychology of St Agnes College (Autonomous) from August 12 to 26 conducted an online certificate course titled 'Ethical Values in Governance and Psychosocial Aspects', which was of 30 hours duration.
Students of PU, Degree and PG from different colleges of Mangaluru were the participants who enrolled for the course making the strength 84. The course was designed to understand the congruence and prominence between 'Ethical values in Governance and the Psychosocial Aspects'.
The resource persons were Gayathri B K, assistant professor in the department of Political Science, Yamini Gowda PC, psychologist and Athena Aranha, assistant professor in the department of Psychology. The course was conducted through Google meet, virtual platform.
The session conducted by Gayathri B K involved the meaning of ethics, their framework, dealing with ethical dilemmas, creativity, accountability and positivity in public service, community building, working principles of moral absolutes, current ethical values and issues, and also benefits of ethics and values.
The concepts in the session conducted by Yamini Gowda P C comprised of leadership, qualities of a good leader, nature vs nurture, attitudes and its formation, prejudice and stereotypes, common addictions, types of abuse and prevention, media, violence and its influence on children and youth.
Athena Aranha touched upon health and its implications, bio-psychosocial model of health, types of health and measures to stay fit. Relationships between individual and community, community health and significance, different types of health care services, types of health professionals and impact of health workers on community.
All the sessions went well; positive feedback was given by the participants daily. Participants actively involved and interacted in every session, group discussion and assessments through quiz, question & answer and assignments were also done. E-certificates were given to the participants who regularly attended and completed the course successfully.
The principal of the college, Sr Dr M Venissa AC encouraged the departments with her best wishes for conducting the course. Dr Hithakshi B, HOD of Psychology and Gayathri, assistant professor in the department of Political Science were the organizers of the online certificate course.