Embedding Ethics in Business
Brian Burton, Management

Brian Burton, an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, teaches a course entitled Ethics in Business Decisions. Dr. Burton developed a decision-making framework for students to use to discuss cases featuring ethical dilemmas. During the course of the quarter, students are encouraged to apply this framework to identify key issues and to decide how to choose between alternative resolutions of the ethical dilemmas presented in the cases.

Select the link to the Portfolio to read about his teaching strategies in his own words. To see how he infuses critical thinking into his course, select the link to Institutional Goals.

Teaching BioEthics
Janice Lapsansky, Biology

Janice Lapsansky, a Lecturer in the Biology Department, embeds a laboratory assignment on bioethics in her introductory biology course. This assignment, which comes at the end of the course, enables students to use the small-group lab relationships they have built over the course of the quarter to argue both sides of bioethical dilemmas. This approach makes the course more meaningful to students, as they see how biology can be applied to issues that arise in their everyday lives.

Select the link to the Portfolio to read about her teaching strategies in her own words. To see how she infuses critical thinking into her course, select the link to Institutional Goals.

Engineering Ethical Decisions
Jeff Newcomer, Engineering Technology

Jeff Newcomer, an Associate Professor in the Engineering Technology Department, collaborated with two colleagues, Kathy Kitto and Barbara Sylvester, to create an upper-division course in the engineering technology curriculum that combines writing with case studies featuring ethical dilemmas. Dr. Newcomer has enriched his students’ engineering technology educations by featuring ethics-focused case studies in several of his lower-division technical courses. In this way, ethics has been embedded throughout the engineering technology curriculum.

Select the link to the Portfolio to read about his teaching strategies in his own words. To see how he infuses critical thinking into his course, select the link to Institutional Goals.