Practical and Professional Ethics

Catalog description

Acquaints students with practical and professional ethics. Assumes no prior experience in ethics, and provides practicable knowledge as well as theoretical knowledge. The first in a series of courses for the MA program in Applied Ethics and the Professions, the course is primarily intended to prepare students in that degree program for their subsequent courses. However, it has been designed to be useful to all graduate students who are interested in learning about practical and professional ethics. The beginning of the course is devoted to the more general subjects of practical ('everyday') ethics and professional ethics, while the remaining weeks are spent focusing on the ethical issues that occur in the context of specific professions, with particular emphasis given to those professions that seem most relevant to the aspirations and interests of the students enrolled in the course.