FALL 2024
PSYC 309D Living the Moral Life: Introduction to Ethics for Psychology Students
Fulfills a PSYC Theme 3 Requirement
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Do you think you might like to live a fulfilled, truly happy life achieved by virtuous behavior, by challenges accepted and met, by honorable and faithful friendship, by respected membership in society?
If so, you’ll need to understand how to interact successfully with other people, be they family, friends, strangers, enemies, lovers, bosses, patients, or colleagues. You’ll need to understand why some behaviors are acceptable and others are not. What is good and what is evil.
In other words, you’ll need to live a moral life. That is the subject of a new course: PSYC 309D Living the Moral Life: Introduction to Ethics for Psychology Students
The course first covers the basic frameworks for understanding morality, moral rules and where they come from, and how to evaluate moral dilemmas. The focus for the rest of the semester is topics of contemporary life from an ethical perspective. Some examples:
Interpersonal ethics - telling the truth, fairness, altruism, bullying, ghosting
Ethics in medicine and related fields - patient autonomy, consent, transplantation, euthanasia Ethics in academia - cheating, research with human subjects, data falsification, authorship Ethics and government - freedom, making just laws, military service, the death penalty Ethical issues at the societal level - discrimination, poverty, cross-cultural morality
PSYC 309D meets Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 in 1200 Cambridge Community Center. Prerequisites: PSYC 100 or equivalent. Instructor: Dr. David Yager
Do you think you might like to live a fulfilled, truly happy life achieved by virtuous behavior, by challenges accepted and met, by honorable and faithful friendship, by respected membership in society?
If so, you’ll need to understand how to interact successfully with other people, be they family, friends, strangers, enemies, lovers, bosses, patients, or colleagues. You’ll need to understand why some behaviors are acceptable and others are not. What is good and what is evil.
In other words, you’ll need to live a moral life. That is the subject of a new course: PSYC 309D Living the Moral Life: Introduction to Ethics for Psychology Students
The course first covers the basic frameworks for understanding morality, moral rules and where they come from, and how to evaluate moral dilemmas. The focus for the rest of the semester is topics of contemporary life from an ethical perspective. Some examples:
Interpersonal ethics - telling the truth, fairness, altruism, bullying, ghosting
Ethics in medicine and related fields - patient autonomy, consent, transplantation, euthanasia Ethics in academia - cheating, research with human subjects, data falsification, authorship Ethics and government - freedom, making just laws, military service, the death penalty Ethical issues at the societal level - discrimination, poverty, cross-cultural morality
PSYC 309D meets Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 in 1200 Cambridge Community Center. Prerequisites: PSYC 100 or equivalent. Instructor: Dr. David Yager
