Course Description
Exploration of ethics through embodied experience, expands moral understanding beyond intellectual reasoning. Students investigate how movement, emotion, and interaction inform ethical awareness. Integrating perspectives from anthropology, religion, social sciences, animal ethics, and artificial intelligence, the course employs guided movement, interdisciplinary inquiry, and reflection to examine embodied influences on ethical decision-making.
Athena Title
Ethic Reas Mind Body Decision
Prerequisite
Third- or fourth-year student standing
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will explain how ethical principles provide justification for standards of conduct.
- Students will recognize the complexities of competing ethical principles and associated standards of conduct.
- Students will analyze ethical ideas, systems, and practices across diverse disciplines and contexts, applying them to complex real-world situations.
- Students will examine how embodied experience and visceral awareness inform ethical reasoning and moral judgment.
- Students will engage in creative and kinesthetic practices to explore ethical choice, consequence, and relational dynamics, challenging students to generate original perspectives and innovative approaches to ethical questions.
- Students will integrate cognitive and embodied learning to develop reflective, empathetic, and well-reasoned ethical responses.
Topical Outline
- Introduction to ethics and embodied ways of knowing
- Major ethical traditions and frameworks
- Interdisciplinary ethics could include technology and AI, environmental and animal ethics, religion, and anthropology, power, identity, positionality
- Embodied exploration of ethical choice, consequence, and relational dynamics
- Integrating cognitive, emotional, and embodied approaches to ethical reasoning
- Reflection and application through written and movement-based modalities
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
