Kenan Institute for Ethics Courses
ETHICS 100D
The Challenges of Living an Ethical Life
Instructor: Peter Euben
The course will be framed by a number of familiar but fundamental ethical questions: What is a good, just and worthy life? How is it to be lived and among whom and by engaging in what sorts of activities? What is the relationship between politics and morality or ethics and power? What are the differences between morality and moralism, ethical responsibility and irresponsibility? In what ways and to what degree are human beings independent actors and to what degree are they shaped by forces outside their control and consciousness? Are violence and war, lying and deception ever justified? When and how? To what extent are we captured by the particular circumstances of our lives and to what extent can we develop more capacious understandings of citizenship and community? How do issues of race, class and gender shape what we mean by a moral life, and who can or should live it? (Ethics 100D is the gateway course for the Ethics Certificate Program.)
ETHICS 280S / GLHLTH 279S
Refugees: Global Health and Ethics
(Fall 2009)
Instructor: Fiona Terry
This seminar examines the ethical and global health challenges posed by refugees and internally displaced persons in the contemporary era.
ETHICS 202S
Organizations in Crisis
(Fall 2008)
Instructors: Noah Pickus, Suzanne Shanahan
Course Description: This course is an advanced undergraduate and graduate student seminar. It examines the causes and consequences of ethical crisis across business, military, higher education and religious institutions and introduces students to different perspectives and traditions to make sense of organizations and their ethical culture. The course focuses on contending conceptions of ethics and the meaning of ethical crisis, on why certain organizations are more prone to ethical problems, and on why certain organizations are better able to manage them. A core goal of the course is to develop real-world solutions to ethical challenges organizations face in contemporary societies world-wide.
