Ethics Courses

  • Ethics in Nanoscience; PHIL 467/PHYS 467 (Prof. Thomas M Powers and Ismat Shah)
  • This course investigates the societal, environmental, and ethical issues that come out of rapid advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology. In analyzing these issues, we will present a broad picture of the current status of nanotechnology and introduce some basic concepts and theories of ethics. We will then overlay the two to critically reflect on the future of responsible technological development in this area. There are no pre-requisites to the course.
  • The Social, Ethical, Legal, and Political Environment of the Firm; BUAD 840 - (Prof. David Silver)
  • This course will examine the moral responsibilities of corporations and those who work for them. The goal is to put students in a position to develop their own critically reflective views on these matters. This course will include readings that are primarily philosophical in nature. However, a major part of the course will also be to examine case studies in business ethics, with a particular emphasis on the most recent spate of corporate scandals. A substantial part of the course will also focus on Professor Silver’s current research concerning corporate ethics within a democratic society.

  • Medical Ethics; PHIL 444 (Prof. Mark Greene)
  • An examination of some of the most controversial issues in medical ethics. Through discussion of specific, highly influential cases, this seminar will join ongoing debates on the ethics of euthanasia, human experimentation, reproductive rights, human cloning, genetic engineering, mental disease and other topics.
  • Computers, Ethics and Society - (CISC-355)
  • Explains relationships among information technology, society and ethics by examining issues raised by increasingly widespread use of computers. Topics include ethics for computer professionals, computer impact on factory work, office work, personal privacy and social power distribution.

  • Ethics and Issues in Sport Management - (HESC-439)
  • Examination of the importance of sport in society as a transmitter of values, including major ethical theories in sport and ethical perspectives on current issues in sport.

  • Ethics - (PHIL-203)
  • Study of moral value, moral obligation and moral virtue through comparison of notable schools of ethical theory, including utilitarianism, existentialism, Kantianism, classical Greek eudaimonism, pragmatism and Thomism.

  • Ethics in Psychology (PSYC-409)
  • Focuses on ethical issues, codes, principles, and dilemmas relevant to experimental and applied fields of Psychology.

  • Contemporary Moral Problems (PHIL 202)
  • The application of philosophical techniques to contemporary moral problems such as abortion, punishment, biomedical ethics, reverse discrimination and sexual morality.