Become a Virtuous Leader With a Minor in Professional Ethics
Graduate prepared to confront challenging issues and work through them in a thoughtful, fair way.
Why Study Professional Ethics at St. Edward's?
Develop the reasoning skills you鈥檒l need to navigate an increasingly complicated world with a lot of gray areas.
Learn how to answer the difficult questions
Should you serve only sustainable food at your restaurant? Should you fire employees to keep costs down and please stakeholders? If you design your own fashion line, how do you make sure the people making your clothes are treated fairly? With classes like Ethical Analysis, Ethics, and Legal, Medical, Environmental or Business Ethics, you'll gain the tools ethically lead others.
Marinate on ethical dilemmas
Sit in on our Food & Philosophy Ethic Series, a recurring event designed to stimulate intellectual conversations about current topics. Past discussions have centered around topics such as Decisional Capacity and the Adolescent: Reconsidering the Doctrine of the Mature Minor, Genetically Engineering Our Children and Drug Peddlers & Politicians: Why Al Capone is Morally Superior to Al Gore.
Discuss films with peers
The Department of Philosophy hosts Film Screenings welcome to all students. Watch a film and engage in thoughtful discussion afterward about issues presented in the film. Students have previously screened and discussed "Made in Dagenham," "The Cantinera" and "Which Way Home."
Listen and share perspectives
Faculty, staff, and students discuss their diverse and distinct perspectives on important and relevant issues. A brief reading is selected for discussion during lunch. Past discussion topics have included Jan Hoffman's article, "What Your Therapist Thinks About You," a New York Times article looking at the therapist鈥檚 view of the patient; 鈥淪mall Change, Why the revolution will not be tweeted,鈥 written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker; and 鈥淭he Disruption Machine, What the gospel of innovation gets wrong,鈥 written by Jill Lepore for The New Yorker.
Explore Details About a Minor in Professional Ethics
Required Courses (6 hours)
- Ethical Analysis
- Internship in Philosophy
Electives (12 hrs)
Choose four of these Professional Ethics courses:
- Legal Ethics
- Ethics and Public Policy
- Ethics and Technology
- Special Topics in Philosophy (when topic is relevant to applied ethics)
- Medical Ethics
- Environmental Ethics
- Business Ethics
Total 18 hours