The First Ethics across the Curriculum (EAC) Workshop



Date: August 18-20, 2005
Place: Sakai Memorial Hall, Library Center, Kanazawa Institute of Technology


Schedule

Thursday: 18 August 2005 (Day 1)
13:00 Introductions, Plan of Workshop: Doing Ethics
13:30 Prudence Morality, Law, and Ethics: Some Distinctions
14:45 Break
15:00 Case discussion: "Catalyst B-Phase 1"
15:30 Method What to look for, how to argue, seven-step method
16:00 Case discussion: method
16:30 Reflections on case discussion (& questions)
17:00 Adjourn
18:00-20:00   Reception

Friday: 19 August 2005 (Day 2)
9:00 Plan of workshop: professional ethics rather than moral theory
9:15 Professional Ethics (Use Japanese engineering code)
10:00 Questions-Catalyst B(cont.)
10:45 Break
11:00 Moral Theory: A very brief introduction
11:30 Questions
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Ethics as the context of professional work: identifying issues
14:00 How to Do ethics in the Classroom: General Discussion (case method, vignettes etc,)
14:30 Questions
15:00 Break
15:15 Empirical literature: What works? What does not?
16:00 Identifying ethical issues in typical assignments: group discussion using materials faculty have brought in, e.g. problems at back of a section. FOUR VOLUNTEERS
17:00 Adjourn

Saturday: 20 August 2005 (Day 3)
9:00 Plan of workshop: pedagogy
10:15 Break
10:30 Grading ethics assignments and exam questions
11:00 Questions and discussion
12:00 Lunch
13:00 What teaching can do (variety of objectives, different ways to achieve different objectives, grading, and accreditation). Possible department wide strategies for gradual introduction across the curriculum
14:00 Moral issues: What should (or should not) be done in classroom?
15:00 Four examples of developed by participants presented and discussed
16:30 Wrap-up
17:00 Adjourn