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ENGAGE AND INTERACT
As an ECP student, you will become part of a community of concern and inquiry
that challenges you intellectually and personally both in and out of the classroom.
Extracurricular activities include:
- Four intellectual/social occasions each year (two per semester)
- Supplementary advising
- Special opportunities to meet as a group with the Kenan Distinguished
Lecturer in Ethics and other visitors sponsored by the Kenan Institute
for Ethics
- Participation in intellectual occasions with members of the Kenan
Graduate Colloquium and other co-curricular activities
CURRICULUM
Eight courses are required for completion of the Ethics
Certificate Program (ECP):
- Ethics 100D Introductory Course: The Challenges of Living an
Ethical Life
- One course in Philosophical Ethics from a list of approved
courses*
- One course in Practical Ethics from a list of approved
courses*
- One course in Religious Ethics from a list of approved
courses*
- One course in Ethics in Historical and Cultural Context from
a list of approved courses*
- Two additional courses
with an Ethical Inquiry (EI) designation (approval
required)
- ETHICS
200 Capstone Course: Capstone Research Seminar in Ethics
* See below for a list of approved courses.
Ethics 100D Introductory Course: The Challenges
of Living an Ethical Life
This course, specially designed for the Ethics Certificate
Program and taught by Professor Peter Euben, is framed by a number of
familiar but fundamental ethical questions: What is a good, worthy, or
just life (or lives)? How is it to be lived, among whom, by engaging in
what sorts of activities, toward what ends? The course examines the origins
of the concepts of ethics and morality, and how and why they became distinct
realms of discourse and life. Specific issues include: public and private
morality, morality and moralism, the possibility of ethical knowledge
and the relationship of that knowledge to ethical action, purity and compromise,
sin and redemption, political freedom and freedom of the will, just war
and the justifications of violence, professional ethics and the professionalization
of ethics, the politics of morality and the morality of politics, and
the particular circumstances of ethics in a democratic polity.
Ancient and modern texts in a variety of genres provide a springboard
for reflection on these issues. Students read dramas and philosophical
analyses, parables and autobiographies, polemics and meditations, novels
and political commentaries, case studies and historical examples. Together,
these works provide different ways of approaching fundamental ethical
questions and offer ways of resolving them.
PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS
ECP students must take one course that provides an overview
of systematic approaches
to moral philosophy.
PRACTICAL ETHICS
ECP students must take one course for its relevance either
to applied ethics in the professions
or to contemporary public policy issues.
RELIGIOUS ETHICS
ECP students must take one course that familiarizes them
with the religious foundations
of ethical thought.
ETHICS IN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
ECP students must take one course that explores how ethical
ideas, visions, and practices
change over time and across cultures.
ELECTIVE
ECP students must take at least two additional courses
with an Ethical Inquiry (EI) designation
(approval required).
ETHICS 200 Capstone Course: Research Seminar in Ethics
This advanced seminar is restricted to senior-year students
enrolled in the Ethics Certificate Program. Each year the course will
focus on a broad theme (such as equality and class, power and morality,
ethical theory and ethical practice, justice and corruption, democracy
and moral development) that will enable students who have developed
distinct approaches to and special competence in questions of ethics
to engage in a dialogue with one another across their specializations.
Course discussions will be informed by the specific ethical problems
and academic disciplines that have defined students’ work since
they entered the program.
All students will complete a substantial research paper that integrates
their special concerns into the broader issues of living an ethical life.
Where appropriate, students’ projects in the seminar will link with
departmental honors projects. All ECP students will be required to give
an oral presentation on their research in a mini-conference or other forum
as the culmination of their work in the program.
ETHICS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM APPROVED COURSES
The following courses have been approved for the Ethics Certificate at
Duke University and are offered in Fall 2008. For a full listing of all
approved courses for the Ethics Certificate and frequency of offering,
download “Approved ECP Courses 2006-08.”
Any student can petition the Ethics Certificate Program (ECP) Steering
Committee to have an Ethical Inquiry (EI) or ethics-related course added
to the approved list of courses for the Program. The Committee regularly
reviews such requests. Contact Doris Jordan at 919-660-3137 or at db.jordan@duke.edu
for more information.
GATEWAY COURSE
ETHICS 100D/POLSCI 107D Challenges of Living
an Ethical Life
PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS
ECP students must take one course that provides an overview of systematic
approaches to moral philosophy.
CLST 157D/POLSCI 150D Ancient Political Theory
ECON 103/POLSCI 103/PHIL 146 Prisoners Dilemma/Distributive Justice
GERMAN 226S Goethe’s Faust
PHIL 117 Ancient and Modern Ethical Theories
PHIL 203S Contemp Ethical Theories
PHIL 208S Political Values
POLSCI 85EFCS Freedom and Responsibility
POLSCI 123D Intro to Political Philosophy
POLSCI 229S Theory of Liberal Democracy
POLSCI 289S Contemporary Ethical Theories
PRACTICAL ETHICS
ECP students must take one course for its relevance either to applied
ethics in the professions or to contemporary public policy issues.
AEROSCI 105S Air Force Leadership/Mgt
AEROSCI 205S Defense Studies
BAA 184S Primate Conservation
EDUC 100 Foundations of Education
EDUC 108S Teaching Prac Lang Arts & SS
EDUC 112S/PUBPOL 109S Children, Schools, and Society
EDUC 118/PSY 108A Educational Psychology
EDUC 149S/SOCIOL 130S Women and the Professions
ENGLISH 143/THEATRST 109 Shakespeare before 1600
GLHLTH 191/CULANTH 191T Medical Anthropology
PHIL 118 Issues in Medical Ethics
PUBPOL 116 Policy Choice as Value Conflict (public policy majors only)
PUBPOL 125 News/Moral Battleground
PUBPOL 134D Politics of Civic Engagement
PUBPOL 144S Social Enterprise Development
PUBPOL 146 Leader/Develop/Organization
PUBPOL 264/AAAS 299/ECON 295 Economics of Reparations
PSY 130/EDUC 112/PUBPOL 109S/SOC 169 Psychological Aspects of Human Development
SOCIOL 164 Death and Dying
RELIGIOUS ETHICS
ECP students must take one course that familiarizes them with the
religious foundations of ethical thought.
AALL 145 Arab, Society, Culture in Film
JEWISHST 107/REL 136 Contem Jewish Thought
JEWISHST 132/AALL 183/LIT 163Q Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
RELIGION 100 The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
RELIGION 107A/ICS 120A Taoism and Chinese Religion
RELIGION 108 Life and Letters of Paul
RELIGION 120/HIST 156B History Christian Church
RELIGION 146 Islamic Civilization
RELIGION 152A/REL 152B/ICS 141E Islamic Mysticism: Perso-Ind/East
RELIGION 159 Ethical Iss Early Christianity
RELIGION 168S/REL 196S Islamic Law and Ethics
RELIGION 184 Religion and Film
ETHICS IN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
ECP students must take one course that explores how ethical ideas,
visions, and practices change over time and across cultures.
AAAS 113B/HIST 113B Europe’s Colonial Encounter
AAAS 144/CULANTH 144 Anthropology of Race
AAAS 145A/HIST 145A Africans in America 1865
AALL 145 Arab, Society, Culture in Film
CULANTH 147/RELIGION 146/MEDREN 146A Intro to Islamic Civilization (Part 1)
FRENCH 160 Sexuality/Gender Studies
FRENCH 167/HIST 175AD/LIT 154AD Albert Camus Post-War France
GERMAN 165S Vikings/Their Literature
HISTORY 195 Seminars in Special Topics (requires course approval)
PHIL 163 Chinese Philosophy
CAPSTONE
ETHICS 202/POLSCI 225S/PUBPOL 203S/SOCIOL
202S Organizations in Crisis
ASSESSMENT
The Kenan Institute for Ethics evaluates the program and
the central goal to increase the student’s understanding
and appreciation for moral and ethical reasoning by assessing
student experiences, learning, competence, and civic engagement
through a variety of forms, including written and on-line
surveys, in-person observation and interviews, focus groups
and content analysis of course syllabi and faculty curriculum
vitas.
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