Ethics Certificate Program students become part of a community of concern and inquiry that challenges them intellectually and personally both in and out of the classroom. Extracurricular activities include:

• Four intellectual/social occasions each year (two per semester; students are expected to attend)
• 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

Past activities include:

April 2008
Ethics in Islam
Discussion led by Ebrahim Moosa, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies.

February 2008
The Torture Debate
Discussion led by Evan Charney, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science.

November 2007
The Best of Enemies Book Discussion
Discussion on the 2007 Duke Summer Reading Selection led by Robert Cook-Deegan, Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy’s (IGSP) Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy

October 2007
Discussion with special guest, Eric Greitens, on ethics
education, moral courage, and strength.

April 2007
The Distinctiveness of Confucianism
Discussion led by David Wong, Professor of Philosophy.