Ethics in a Diverse World: Critical Challenges and Contemporary Problems

3 Credits.

This course addresses global ethical dynamics and challenges in today’s diverse world. It asks students to explore how themes such as identity, memory, and conflict can help them analyze and understand contemporary ethical issues and problems. This approach will enable students to think humanistically and through an interdisciplinary lens as they study critical ethical issues such as genocide, xenophobia, racism, religious discrimination, women and violence, trauma, nationalism, belonging, and paradigms of otherness. Participants in the course will be expected to craft fluid ethical responses to these contemporary global challenges that take into consideration social, regional, and historical contexts as well as the voices and experiences of marginalized persons, identities, and cultures.