Set your compass
The teaching of ethical thinking and moral philosophy pervades the College of Arts and Humanities' liberal arts curriculum. Ethics is a subdiscipline of philosophy, but more broadly, ethical reasoning saturates the materials we cover in most of our classes, ranging from history to language, theater to film. We encourage students to develop an ethical framework for all areas of study, and apply it to fields including business, law, medicine and technology. In addition to classroom instruction, we encourage students to explore ethical questions through intercollegiate competition and student organizations.
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Ethics Bowl
Held each year in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE), the National Ethics Bowl is inspired by TV's College Bowl. In the Ethics Bowl, over 100 teams from schools across the nation prepare for debate on a set of 15 ethical case studies. The cases present ethical dilemmas in a variety of areas, the classroom (e.g. cheating or plagiarism), to personal relationships (e.g. dating or friendship), professional ethics (e.g. engineering, law, medicine), and social and political ethics (e.g. free speech, gun control, etc.)
Contact coach Adam GiesLaw, Liberty and Justice
The Law, Liberty and Justice emphasis area in Philosophy deals with critically and wisely navigating the competing ethical values of individual liberty and the common good, and reflectively using ethical principles to make important decisions in our own lives, in the treatment of others, and in the larger social sphere, that define who we are both as individuals and as a culture.
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Medicine, Health, and Human Values
he Medicine, Health, and Human Values emphasis area in Philosophy focuses on pressing ethical issues such as patient autonomy and consent, regulation of and access to medical services, health care prioritization, research ethics, environmental justice, and population-level bioethics and public health.
Read moreTeaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Clemson University is the home of the Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, "Teaching Ethics." The journal is co-edited by Dan Wueste and Edyta Kuzian, faculty members in the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
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Classics and the Ancient World (CLAW)
The flexible, fifteen credit hour minor in Classics and the Ancient World (CLAW) gives students the opportunity to read, reflect on, and wrestle with the great writer and thinkers of the ancient Mediterranean world, including Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Plato and Aristotle, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Israelite Prophets, Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, St. Paul, St. Augustine and many more
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