Ethical Reasoning

Ethical Reasoning falls under the Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship Capacity.

What should we care about? How should we behave in our personal, civic, and professional lives? Do laws have a moral basis?

Learning to grapple competently with such fundamental ethical questions is a central component of citizenship and is critical to helping us understand ourselves not just as individuals, but also as parts of communities and custodians of the Earth. Ethical reasoning is part of Boston University’s distinguishing tradition of social justice.

Courses in this area will have two of the three following learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will be able to identify, grapple with, and make a judgment about the ethical questions at stake in at least one major public debate, and engage in a thoughtful discussion about it with those who hold views different from their own.
  2. Students will demonstrate the skills and vocabulary needed to reflect on their ethical responsibilities to multiple communities: e.g., communities of which students are a part, communities identified as “other,” multispecies communities of the Earth, and humankind, broadly understood.
  3. Students will demonstrate knowledge of ethical issues around racial and/or other socially based forms of injustice (e.g., based in gender, class, sexuality, etc.) and the skills to ethically assess and make informed, evaluative judgments about those issues.

Courses

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