Keough Ethical Practice Seminar

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The Keough Ethical Practice Seminar analyzes the practice of ethical reasoning and analysis in professional and public settings relevant to global affairs. The course focuses on Integral Human Development in practice and applied ethics and employs the IHD framework for making ethical decisions in specific types of global professional settings, such as humanitarian relief delivery, development projects, policy making, human rights advocacy and the like, each with its own professional ethical standards that are both internally and externally contested. The course will ask students to consider real-life ethical dilemmas and to reflect on the relationship of professional ethics, the social-ethical framework, and their own values.