Jonathan Moody (1991) Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Foote Ethics Chair
B.A., Colby College; B.D., Yale Divinity School;
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School

The Ethics minor is an expression of Ethical Humanism, our model for ethics across the college, and participates in the mission of the college to foster intellectual excellence and social responsibility. Students in the minor will combine required study of Ethical Thinking and Engaged Citizenship with the theoretical study of ethics and departmentally applied ethics, along with significant experience in a service learning setting. The minor should engage the student both in the formal study of ethics and in the attention to ethics in the department within which the student has the major. This will require careful advising in the Ethics program.

Ethics Minor

The minor consists of at least 20 credit hours and meets each of the following requirements:

1. Two courses offered by the Center for the Study of Ethics and Values: Ethical Thinking (PHIL xxx) and Engaged Citizenship (INTD xxx);

2. At least one from among the following ethics courses offered in the Philosophy and Religious Studies departments, conveying methodology and theory about the formal disciplinary study of ethics: PHIL 118, 119, 219, 270, 271; RELG 224, 262, 313

3. At least one course in applied ethics approved by the Ethics committee. Currently these would likely include: CPSC 240, ECON 235, POLS 109, POLS 229 POLS 345, HIST 240, HIST 269.  Where an approved course exists in the student’s major, that is encouraged.

4. A significant service-learning experience, worked out by contract with a faculty member on the committee of the Center for the Study of Ethics and Values, in which ethical analysis and reflection of the experience are integrated.  It is often desirable for the student to obtain this experience in a way that is connected with the student’s major.