Interdisciplinary Ethics (Minor Concentration)

Advisory Board:

The Interdisciplinary Ethics Minor is designed to provide systematic theoretical and practical study of moral values. Ethics is an enquiry into the judgments by which we guide our personal and collective lives. Ethicists ask “What is the good?” and “How ought we to act?” The study of ethics and the practice of ethical reflection should therefore be key elements in the education of students in every area of the curriculum as well as in business, professional, and public life. Ethics is an important regulative basis for conduct in the natural and social sciences, in professional practices including law, medicine, psychology, and teaching, for those engaged in public service, government and charitable organizations, and for entrepreneurship in private industry.

Ethics Minor

Complementing the minor in Interdisciplinary Theory of Knowledge, the Interdisciplinary Ethics Minor is designed to teach “ethics across the curriculum.” It includes classes from disciplines in the arts and sciences with sustained attention to ethical issues. The program is organized around core ethics courses and applied ethical studies in various disciplines.

Requirements

Students must take at least five classes in approved coursework in ethics. (Modifications must be approved by two members of the advisory board.)