Paideia 450: Ethical Choices
Paideia 450 Ethical Choices is a course for juniors and seniors devoted to interdisciplinary study of ethical issues that confront us in our lives as learners and citizens. Paideia 450 courses pay special attention to the nature of moral decision-making through discussion and the continued development of each student's writing.
2023–24 Course Offerings
Fall 2023
- Ethical Issues in Fiction and Society
- Decisions for U.S. Schools
- Recreational Use of the Natural World
January 2024
- London Theatre
- Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
- People and Parks in Tanzania
- Practicing Embodiment
- Ethics of Reproduction: Past, Present, Future
Spring 2024
- Decisions for U.S. Schools
- Love and Gender in China
Fall 2024
- Decisions for U.S. Schools
- Recreational Use of the Natural World
2021–22 Course Offerings
- Ethics and Technology
- Rochester, City of Refuge: The Ethics of Immigration and Integration
- Making Decisions for US Schools
- Migration and Border Issues: Ethics, Policy, and Practice
- Making Decisions for US Schools
2020–21 Course Offerings
- Medicalizing Normal
- Queering Subjectivities
- The Mutable City: Ethical Engagement with Urban Change and Challenges
- Making Decisions for US Schools
- The Search for Happiness
- Recreational Use of the Natural World
- Making Decisions for US Schools
- The Color of Change
- Making Decisions for US Schools
- The Search for Happiness
- Making Decisions for US Schools
2019–20 Course Offerings
- The Mutable City: Ethical Engagement with Urban Change and Challenges
- Women in the Pacific War
- Making Decisions for US Schools
- Islam in Europe: The History and Politics of Muslim Belonging (Germany/France/Britain)
- English Theatre: Mirror of Society and Human Condition (England/Scotland)
- People and Parks: Pastoralism and Conservation in East Africa (Tanzania)
- Challenges in Twenty-first Century Norway
- Practicing Embodiment (Costa Rica)
- Anthropology and Public Health
- Here on Earth
- Re-Imaging Race and Speculative Fiction
- Bodies, Sticks, and Mindfulness
- Making Decisions for US Schools