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Description
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During the arduous process
of completing masters and doctorates, graduate students
become increasingly aware of the many ethical dilemmas that
will confront them as future faculty. Some of these
conflicts are already in play. For example, many graduate
students currently deal with faculty rivalries, pressure for
good teaching evaluations, sexual harassment, distribution
of fellowships and financial aid, intellectual property
conflicts, and many others.
This course is premised on
the fact that these issues will not be going away; rather
they will be multiplying in both number and complexity. In
order to prepare graduate students to deal with this, a wide
range of issues will be discussed along with some general
strategies for managing ethical dilemmas. The approach here
will be philosophical -- that is to say, all issues will
include discussion of the justifications for proposed
solutions. After discussing some basic philosophical
approaches to ethics, we'll look at a range of ethical
issues that concern professionals generally, as well as
those which concern academic professionals
especially.
http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/grs/GRS390R.html
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