Undergraduate Courses:
Graduate Courses:
道德 and Values in STEM (PHIL 1146)
艺术家: Sara Gironi
This general-education Philosophy course introduces students to the basics of research ethics, professional responsibility in engineering, the relationship between bias & objectivity, value judgments throughout the scientific process, science & the military, and environmental injustice/colonialism.
科学 & 性别 (GNDR/PHIL 2040)
Famous women in science (left to right): astronaut Mae C. Jamison, physicist-chemist
Marie Curie, computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, and primatologist Jane Goodall
(更 在这里; artist: Natasha Dzhola).
This general-education Philosophy/Women’s and 性别 Studies course explores the nature/nurture debates about “sex differences,” women in science, bias & values in research, and 性别 & sexuality in medicine, such as breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, reproductive justice, and 性别 dysphoria/euphoria.
Philosophy of Bioethics (PHIL 3042)
艺术家: Paige Vickers
This required course for the BS in Biomedical 科学 delves into research ethics involving human/nonhuman subjects and conflicts of interest, clinical ethics across Eastern & Western traditions, and health policies like CRISPR regulations, racial health disparities, & “gay conversion therapy.” [Fall semeseters]
道德 in Computing and Information Technologies (CSE/IT/PHIL 3082)
艺术家: Pablo Delcan
This required course for the BS in Computer 科学/IT examines professional responsibilities of programmers, tech firms, and governments for user privacy and national security, including ethical challenges related to technologies like self-driving cars, AI chatbots, and workforce software. [Spring semesters]
Ethical and Social Issues in Public Engagement (PCOM 5005/PHIL 4042)
This required course for the MS in Public Engagement examines how values and politics influence STEM, the “knowledge deficit” model for science communication, universal design vs. design justice, and strategies for building 信任 & community-led participatory science. [Spring Semesters, every other year]
Cybersecurity 道德 & 法律 (CYBS 5002/PHIL 4082)
The required course for the MS and PhD in Transdisciplinary Cybersecurity explores the standards professional behavior in cybersecurity regarding “ethical hacking” and bug bounties, as well as case studies involving malware/ransomware, surveillance capitalism, IP, and digital piracy. [Fall semesters]