These courses meet the Oral Communication general education requirement.
PHIL 160R Raising Moral Issues in STEM
Online asynchronous (20717/20718/20719, & 21899/21900/21901)
Prof. Nathan Nicol
It can seem like moral values have no place in engineering, technological design, and business. But if we don’t learn to recognize and speak up for our moral values, we run a profound risk of being complicit in all sorts of wrongdoing. This course provides training in how to recognize and speak up in defense of moral concerns in STEM organizational contexts, and how to do so in an effective, productive way. For course work, there will be weekly Modules to work through, each with small assignments, but these will all be in the service of one White Paper presentation due at the end of the semester, where you tackle a moral issue in a STEM setting and provide a recommended course of action.
PHIL 160R Raising Moral Issues in STEM
W 4:30-7:10 (21315)
Prof. Christopher Giofreda
PHIL 160R will teach you how tostand up for what you think is right and how to ethically persuade others to join you, focusing on how to handle values conflicts in the workplace. We’ll learn approaches favored throughout the ages, not to mention the tricks of history’s least pleasant people. These ideas will give you a grasp of how we go right, how we go wrong, and what in the world we should do about it.