Ethics across the Curriculum Activities

• Create  an “Ethics Challenge Game” (73 ff in Daniel Terris’ Ethics at Work)
• Turn a case into a narration and dialogue (Students become a character.)
• One hour/year: All employees discuss ethics issues
• Sponsor an Ethics Film Festival: students create films for a contest. Give cash prizes.
• Sponsor an Ethics Bowl.
• Faculty write cases pertinent to their area.
• Students discuss:
  What do you need to know to respond to this case?
  What would you do if _______ changed?
• Everyone discusses the ethics code/academic integrity policy during the first week of classes.
• Have students interview someone in their field (on the outside) concerning ethics issues.
• Develop panels on an ethics-related topic.
• Use films with ethics questions in them.
• Sponsor a “leadership” expo. Use as a vehicle for discussing principles/standards, etc.
• Sponsor an essay contest—kicked off by a renowned speaker on the ethics topic to be explored in the essay. Give cash prizes.
• Ask leaders in a field to share practices, dilemmas, etc. that come from their experiences with ethics situations.
• Have a businessperson describe a real life ethics situation. Audience asks for clarifications, etc. Students, then, in groups determine what their reaction/resolution would be. Students share their response. Businessperson explains what he/she actually did in the situation and why.

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