ETHSO-MIN - Ethics in Society (Minor)

The Program in Ethics in Society, which operates under the umbrella of the Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, is designed to foster scholarship, teaching, and moral reflection on fundamental issues in personal and public life. The program is grounded in moral and political philosophy, but it extends its concerns across a broad range of traditional disciplinary domains. The program is guided by the idea that ethical thought has application to current social questions and conflicts, and it seeks to encourage moral reflection and practice in areas such as business, technology, international relations, law, medicine, politics, science, and public service.

All courses counted towards the minors must be taken at Stanford University.

The department expects undergraduate majors in the program to be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes:

1. Understand and articulate normative frameworks from historical and contemporary moral and political philosophy

2. Apply moral reasoning to current problems at the heart of political and social life

3. Define and critically engage with moral values and describe their potential tensions with one another

4. Identify the moral concerns latent in the development of new technological innovation (For Ethics and Technology Track)