"The topics in these modules are important because they focus on the issues every student faces in their school years, when students are most in need of guidance"

As contextualized by the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission, the overall goal of these modules is to help "students choose right over wrong, and be responsible for the consequences of those choices. "To do so, students would need to develop a value system that enables them to recognize how they affect others, to consider the consequences of their acts, and to adopt a mature set of goals. This can be achieved with consistent reinforcement in education-at all levels of schooling.

Many professional fields recognize the importance of ethics, and many classes in high school and college already include this content. Thus students are already exposed to areas such as business ethics, medical ethics, research ethics, and legal ethics (including international law and human rights). We will not focus on these ethics courses specifically, as they are already well established.

These modules are intended to be integrated into the curriculums of high school or the first two years of college. These are introductory topics on ethical perspectives, and in that regard, they could be considered valuable preparation for a course in ethics for in-depth study. Besides laying the foundations for appreciating the importance of ethics for decisions they must make, the topics in these modules are important because they focus on the issues every student faces in education, their communities, and in their lives. We hope these modules can help provide students some guidance in their awareness, reflection, and decision-making.