ETHICAL LEADERSHIP & INCLUSION

Catalog description

This course introduces the student to the study of ethics as a basis for decision making and responsible leadership in inclusive organizations and communities. Leadership roles come with a moral responsibility, and this course emphasizes the need to affirm the dignity and worth of multiple stakeholders through applying strong ethical principles. This course also emphasizes the need for leaders to approach leadership from a service-oriented positionality that works to acknowledge vulnerability. Through discussions, case studies, presentations and written responses, students in this course apply ethical reasoning from a variety of standpoints and traditions, including consequentialism, deontology, relational ethics and virtue ethics. Inquiry is centered around the consideration of what responsibilities we have toward our fellow human beings - especially the needy, ignored and excluded. Ultimately, students in this course will build an interdisciplinary and multicultural foundation of ethical theory and practice, enabling them to understand not only what it takes to be a leader at work, but in the wider world.