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Democratizing Ethics with Discrimination, Inequality, Injustice and Technology in Mind

PUBLPOL
63Q
Instructors
Liautaud, S. (PI)
Section Number
1
This seminar/practicum will invite students to roll up our sleeves and deliver concrete recommendations for making ethical decision-making accessible to ordinary citizens rather than just determined by corporate giants, law makers or academic experts. We will explore practical approaches to the following questions: How can we make ethical decision-making accessible to ordinary citizens in a complex world of technology, biology and even space exploration? How can we incentivize citizens to care about integrating ethics into their decision-making? How do we each have ethical power in society even where economic and technological control lie with tech giants and lodged in the brains of experts? What, if anything, is different about citizens' sense of moral responsibility in society today (and how has technology contributed to shifting views)? How can we develop an ethics barometer soliciting the views, and facilitating the influence of, ordinary citizens on key ethical questions outside of normal channels like voting and individual engagement with social media? The course will consider a number of cutting-edge topics from Covid-19 and gene editing and long-standing challenges such as racism. Highly interactive course. Very short papers and teamwork along the way in lieu of final paper or exam. 3 credits (option C/NC for students not wishing WAYS credit).
Grading
Letter or Credit/No Credit
Requirements
WAY-ER
Units
3
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Course Tags
Contemporary Issues
Academic Year
Quarter
Winter
Section Days
Monday
Start Time
10:30 AM
End Time
11:50 AM
Location
200-219