Summer Ethics Seminar

2024 Theme: Engaged Learning for Local Food and Environmental Justice

Facilitators:

Josh King (English; Director, Environmental Humanities; Affiliated Faculty, Baylor Ethics Initiative)

Paul Martens (Religion; Director of Interdisciplinary Programs, College of Arts & Sciences; Director, Baylor Ethics Initiative)

Overview

The Summer Ethics Seminar is designed to cultivate increased ethical literacy across the Baylor campus. Through a partnership between the Academy for Teaching & Learning and the Baylor Ethics Initiative, this 1-week summer seminar invites faculty into an interdisciplinary conversation that illuminates how ethics is already present within and yet might further shape their teaching and research. Through collaboration with peers and input from colleagues specializing in ethics, the seminar will provide faculty with the necessary tools to further develop the role of ethics in their teaching and research. Each year, the seminar will gather around a unique theme to illuminate the multiple ways ethics is present in our preparation, in our classrooms, and in our research.

Participants will meet a few hours each day to discuss readings, share lunch, and work on individual SES projects.

A seminar-related project is a requirement of participation in SES. For example, the outcome could be an ethics-related course module to complement an existing course, a new ethics-related course proposal, or a preliminary proposal for an ethics-related research project.