PHIL 324 - Engineering Ethics
This course looks at ethical questions that arise in the sciences, especially engineering, focusing on examples such as the Challenger disaster and all the decisions that led up to it. Satisfies Applied Ethics for Science and Engineering.
The students will have the opportunity to learn:
- about practical judgment, especially in the context of varied and changing cultures;
- how to assess the historical and social circumstances of a project;
- how to weight the significance of technological achievements;
- how to approach the ethical analysis of cases involving engineered systems and products
THST 398 - Design Ethics
This course will offer tools for surveying and tracking the directions of the desires that underlie designs. The Matrix, whose sequels appeared in theaters this year, will provide a ready focus for the questions connected with the design of social systems. The course will provide means for establishing the effective position of outside evaluation.
The participants of this course will discuss design:
- What is good design?
- What are the social consequences of design?