Ethics Certificate

The Ethics Certificate program studies ethical theories, the history of ethical thought, applied ethical methodologies, and the good life (individually and collectively). The program is designed to give students the ethical reasoning skills to become good ethical decision-makers in their personal and professional lives. We explore contemporary ethical issues in bioethics, medical ethics, business ethics, and environmental ethics. We also explore social justice issues in the legal, social, and political arenas. Students who complete the program will be able to articulate clearly ethical problems, relevant ethical issues, and ethical dilemmas. Students will be able to construct justified ethical solutions to such problems while being sensitive to the multivarious perspectives, rights, and interests. Moreover, students will be prepared to analyze the value of existing codes of ethics in the workplace and implement guidelines for ethical behavior in a professional environment.

What a Moravian Ethics Certificate Can Do For You

Make you more marketable to employers in business health care and other professions

Enhance your career in business

Enhance your career in health care

Enhance your career in nursing

Enhance your profile for medical school

(for medical school and doctors)

“Medical ethics will quickly become part of your life upon gaining a place at medical school, but an appreciation of modern medical ethics is also a necessary tool for your medical school interview, as you will undoubtedly encounter ethical questions.”

- The Medical School Application Guide

Program Requirements

The Ethics Certificate consists of four courses in value theory. One course unit may be from a related program subject to approval by the chair of the philosophy department.

PHIL 222 Ethics
PHIL 224 Applied Ethics
PHIL 226.2 Ethics Bowl I
PHIL 227.2 Ethics Bowl II
PHIL 228 Sport Ethics
PHIL 230/330 Advanced Topics in the Ethics of Abortion
PHIL 232 Race, Gender, Identity, and Moral Knowledge
PHIL 234 Ethics for the Public's Health
PHIL 234.2 Aristotle on Friendship
PHIL 250 Environmental Ethics
PHIL 255 Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 257 Bio-Ethics and Social Justice
PHIL 259 Medical Ethics
PHIL 265 Feminist Philosophy
PHIL 267 West African Philosophy: Akan Ethics
PHIL 279 Philosophy of Law
PHIL 281 Topics in Ethics
PHIL 330/230 Advanced Topics in the Ethics of Abortion
PHIL 355 Meta-Ethics
PHIL 371 Seminar in Philosophy
REL 260: Moral Injury: A Pubic Health Crisis

Program Objectives

To introduce students to the nature of value claims, the meaning of ethical judgments, and the nature of ethics.
To introduce students to ethical principles and approaches that support moral decisions and moral judgments.
To introduce students to the most prominent ethical theories in ethics such as consequentialism, deontology, utilitarianism, act-utilitarianism, rule-utilitarianism, virtue ethics, contractarianism, emotivism, different forms of relativism, and critiques of these theories.
To teach students to critically evaluate ethical issues from various perspectives and construct good arguments in defense of a particular view or position.
To teach students to write clearly in their analysis and evaluation of ethical issues and in their justifications of ethical positions.
To introduce students to specific contemporary world ethical issues - such as social justice, euthanasia, abortion, cloning, world hunger and the responsibility of the affluent, war, animal rights, the death penalty, sustainability, climate crisis, etc., through the perspective of various normative theories to determine their ethical status.
To introduce students to ethical issues that arise in areas such as business, medicine, nursing, public health, bioethics, politics, law, and policy.

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