24.134 | Summer 2025 | Undergraduate

Experiential Ethics

Course Description

This course examines the ethical dimensions of students’ professional lives, summer internships, and research projects. Students explore their own moral values through a range of ethical frameworks and questions. The course runs for ten weeks over the summer and concludes with a showcase of students’ …
This course examines the ethical dimensions of students’ professional lives, summer internships, and research projects. Students explore their own moral values through a range of ethical frameworks and questions. The course runs for ten weeks over the summer and concludes with a showcase of students’ independent projects in the first week of the fall term.
Activity Assignments
Presentation Assignments
Readings
Student Work
Seated on a duffel bag, a young man holds a sign with the words “Homeless. Please help. Thank you,” as a woman removes an object from one of her bags.
Two passers-by give food to a homeless person. (Image courtesy of Ed Yourdon on Flickr. License: CC BY-NC-SA.)