25 Ethics Preparatory Programs

In this Diploma of Higher Education in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics, you’ll investigate a variety of questions and themes in religious studies and philosophy from historical and contemporary perspectives. You’ll explore human systems of thought and practice, both ‘secular’ and ‘religious’. This will allow you to engage with wide-ranging and often controversial issues affecting different cultures and societies.

In ECLIRE - The Ethics of Climate Change: Reshaping Responsibilities for Present and Future Generations the seasonal school aims to train participants on the ethics of climate change through a triple perspective: individual, global and intergenerational. It will also do so by opening up to disciplines beyond political and moral philosophy, such as political science, metaphysics, sociology and economics.

This course explores local and global ethical problems that managers face in markets for goods, services, labor, or capital. Through identification and discussion of the basic business disciplines, students uncover the interdependencies in the creation, delivery and capture of value.

This course examines ethical and political questions that arise in doing public service work, whether volunteering, service learning, humanitarian endeavors overseas, or public service professions such as medicine and teaching. What motives do people have to engage in public service work? Are self-interested motives troublesome? What is the connection between service work and justice? Should the government or schools require citizens or students to perform service work? Is mandatory service an oxymoron?

This course is an introduction to the philosophical debate about economic inequality and economic justice. We will explore different arguments to justify or object to inequalities of income and wealth, both at a national and a global level.

We raise awareness of ethically sensitive situations and provide principles and tools for forming coherent ethical judgments regarding individual, government, or organizational actions. Students learn ethical theories and tools from which they create their own personal ethical codes and test them against established ethical principles, class discussion, homework, class presentations, and situations from work and life. The Ethical Analyst summer course addresses personal life, human action and relations in society, technology, medicine, coercion, harming, stealing, imposition of risk, deception, and other ethical issues. 

After completing the course, the doctoral students shall have the ability to explain fundamental questions, theories, and concepts within normative ethics, metaethics, and view of life studies; identify areas within the welfare society that can be analyzed using ethical and view of life study.

Stand out in a crowded field with a Business Sustainability and Ethics Certificate. The Business Sustainability and Ethics Microdegree consists of 4-courses providing a concentrated perspective into the complex field of business law, economics, and ethics.

DePauw’s Ethics in Society minor fosters the discernment, reflection, empathy and critical thinking that students need to reason effectively through ethical questions – a central component of DePauw’s commitment to develop leaders the world needs. Ethics is the evaluation of actions, character traits, policies and institutions according to standards of what is right, virtuous, beneficial, good and just. Such evaluation is inherent in the human condition and pervades every kind of professional practice.

The Social Responsibility and Ethics certificate is designed to help students understand how businesses can act responsibly in today’s world. It covers key concepts like ethical decision-making, socia...

The certificate in Dialogue, Ethics, and Social Good offers students a chance to explore complex issues related to ethical communication and social responsibility. It emphasizes the importance of unde...

The valuable part-time master's degree program at Dresden International University (DIU) is aimed at doctors and healthcare professionals and starts annually in the winter semester in November. The theoretical learning content for the K3 trainer certificate from the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM), which can also be taken individually, is integrated into the course of study.

At Jefferson College, we offer Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy, Logic, World Religions, and Medical Ethics. We have one full-time faculty member and a roving band of highly qualified and fascinating adjuncts.

Ethnic Studies is the interdisciplinary critical and comparative study of race and ethnicity, focusing on the experiences of African American, Native American/Indigenous, Asian American/Pacific Islander, and Chicana/o/x/Latina/o/x populations. Ethnic Studies provides an intersectional and critical lens for studying racial, ethnic, gender and class identities, and for interrogating structural racism, power, knowledge, and racialization in culture, politics, economy, and law.

Ethics comes up when things go down. Explore ethical theories to reflect upon what we design and why. Use speculative design to envision the unexpected consequences of new technology. Learn how to create experiences that bring to life ethical theories.