Experimental design of field and laboratory enclosures, exclosures, emphasizing aquatic ecosystems with use of terrestrial examples where appropriate. Course uses group and individual exercises at local streams, wetlands, lakes, and the estuarine intertidal zone. Scientific ethics: fraud, falsification, and plagiarism. The role of professional judgment. Data presentation, publications, authorship.

Exploration of the ethical dilemmas arising from recent advances in the biological sciences: genetic engineering, socio-biology, health care delivery, behavior modification, patients' rights, social or private control of research.

A critical survey of classical and recent literature in the field of environmental history, philosophy, and ethics, with special emphasis on the American environment. Topics will include environmental historiography, theories of environmental history, and the relationships between environmental history, philosophy, ethics, ecology, and policy.

Students will be introduced to some of the perplexing moral issues that permeate the practice of modern medicine and discussion will focus on methods for grappling with these problems. Actual cases discussed by hospital ethics committees in the Bay Area, and presented by committee members, will serve as a focus for class meetings.

This is an interdisciplinary survey course that seeks to understand how we define justice, evil, and individual responsibility in modern society. In particular we are going to probe carefully how humans reflect on and practice the process of moral reasoning. We will focus on human behavior in extreme situations: war, life and death conflicts, genocide and mass killing, as well as competing conceptions of human freedom. The course has a distinctive dual purpose. On the one hand we want to encourage the learning of critical thinking skills. This includes the ability to systematically evaluate information and competing moral claims. Also, it is intended as an exposure to the interdisciplinary approach. That is, how can different perspectives illuminate the same issue? With this in mind the course draws on important work from philosophy and ethics, social psychology, jurisprudential analysis, historical-political accounts, and personal memoirs.

Critical evaluation of the mass media, discussion of problems of ethics and responsibility, and the production of several research papers.(SP) MacDougall

Students in 255 will use three disciplines--history, ethics, and law-- to examine the evolving practices, responsibilities, and obligations of professional journalists. The course teaches essential press and media law, followed by an eight-week case history workshop in ethical decision-making for journalists.
The course is taught by Cynthia Gorney, Lydia Chavez, and William Turner, with assistance from Thomas Burke (an attourney in private practice) and William Woo (former editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and former head of the American Society of Newspaper Editors ethics committee).

Investigation of the major ideas in environmental planning. Review of history and theory from the classical and contemporary literature. Topics may include ecological determinism, rationalism, utilitarianism, public goods, economic externalities and market failure, social and economic values, ecological limits, ethics, aesthetics, preservation/conservation, and the role of the professional in environmental planning.

The fundamental concepts and problems of morality examined through the study of classical and contemporary philosophical theories of ethics.

Instructor: R. Jay Wallace

Those who decide to participate in politics must inevitably make ethical choices. Too often, the moral bases of political decisions are unexamined. This course looks at the political choices of leaders and citizens as they relate to honesty and public rhetoric, corruption and public trust, influence and the appropriate exercise of power, fairness in process and policy outcome, political obligations and duties, and the nature of political calculation. The materials of this course will be drawn from case studies of political choices, relevant legal cases, comparative politics, guest speakers with political experience, and ethical theory.
Instructor: John Brady

Should nations intervene in other countries to prevent human rights abuses or famine? On what principles should immigration be based? Should wealthy states aid poorer states, and if so, how much? Is it ever right to go to war? And if so, when, and with what means? We will examine different traditions in moral thought and use these tools to make reasoned judgements about these and similar difficult moral problems such as these in world politics.
Instructor: Amy Gurowitz

An interdisciplinary introduction to some of the major policy issues facing the American voter. Emphasis is on how difficult it is to arrive at an informed decision--not on determining what that decision ought to be. The roles of politics, economics, law, technical issues of administration and implementation, and ethics will be illustrated. Problem areas will vary from semester to semester. Participating faculty will vary along with the issues emphasized. Among the potential topics are: Mexico and the United States; Gays in the Military; National Health Insurance; Placing Hazardous Facilities. Guest lectures from legislatures, the media, the bureaucracy, the lobbying community, etc., will be integrated into the course.

Examines the structure, conduct, and performance of the U.S. health care system. Course is a vehicle for considering problems that arise in the design and implementation of health care policy specifically, and public policy analysis generally. The course uses the tools of many disciplines, but particularly those of economics and ethics, to analyze various contemporary health care issues and to weigh the associated corrective proposals. The focus is on the U.S. system, but international comparisons will also be explored.

Cross listed as Political Science C163A.
The interaction of religion and politics. The primary focus is the impact of religion on modern American politics. This core will be supplemented by historical and comparative analyses of the role of religion in politics.

Taught by Assistant Professor Christopher Kutz

Taught by Professor Sanford Kadish

Taught by Professor Meir Dan-Cohen

This course focuses on the changing nature of technology and the complex ethical issues that are emerging as a result. These new issues are arising in such areas as biotechnology, information technology, nanotechnology and nuclear technology. The nature of these issues, their ethical, legal and social ramifications, and what our society values in relation to these issues are discussed. Philosophy, religion and the natural and social sciences will be explored in relation to these issues. (Sp) Professor William Kastenberg and Ms. Gloria Hauser-Kastenberg

Historical, regional, and cultural perspectives on ethics. The ethics of issues associated with modern technology and the effect of technology on social, cultural, and economic systems. Environmental impact of engineering activities. The role of the engineer in controlling technology uses. Ethical and legal responsibilities of the engineering professional. Engineering codes of ethical conduct. Avoiding ethical conflicts in the workplace.

Introduction to technical, social, institutional, and ethical issues in nuclear engineering; nuclear reactions and radiation, radiation protection and control, nuclear energy production and utilization, nuclear fuel cycle, reactor safety, controlled fusion, nuclear waste, medical, and other applications of radiation, nuclear nonproliferation and arms control and engineering ethics.

This seminar will examine a range of ethical issues that arise in the process of doing science. Beginning with the philosophical and social foundations, we will consider the pathogenesis of fraud, statistics and deception, the ethics of authorship and publication, research with human subjects, the use of animals, the definition(s) of misconduct and the difference between misconduct and questionable research practices, the relationship between industry and science, and finally, the responsibilities and obligations of the scientist in society.