CONN 121 | Ethics in Practice

This course engages students in conversation about ethics in everyday life, and the values and reasoning behind different ways of approaching them. Throughout the semester, students research and discuss case studies in small groups. The instructor-assigned cases may come from personal contexts (such as friendship and family), social contexts (such as speech and representation), technological contexts (such as social media and generative artificial intelligence), or professional contexts (such as medicine or business). In addition, students will complete a final project on the ethics of a case that relates to their curricular or co-curricular interests. While exploring cases of ethics in practice, students will consider different social perspectives, different academic approaches to knowledge, different career paths, and their own values and interests.