Module 4: Resources
Action and Accountability
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Works Consulted
Darley, J. & B. Latane. (1968). Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 8(4, Pt.1), 377-383.
Monroe, K. (2012). Ethics in an age of terror and genocide: Identity and moral choice. NJ: Princeton
University Press.
Singer, P. (2000). Writings on an ethical life. NY: HarperCollins.
Teaching Strategies
Writing a Paper on Ethical Accountability
Additional Assignments to Increase Student Engagement
A Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Profiles in Ethics Discussion Questions
"The Ethics of Species Discovery"
Web Resources
"A Year of Ethical Living Revisited"
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Ethics and International Affairs
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United States Holocaust Museum
USC Dornsife: College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Module 3: Resources
Ethical Decision-Making
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Works Consulted
Brown, S. (2009). Play: How it shapes the brain, opens the imagination and invigorates the soul.
New York: Penguin/Avery.
Darwin, C. (1859). The origin of species. NY: Bantam Dell.
Ginsberg, K. (2007). The importance of play in promoting healthy child development and
maintaining strong parent child bonds. Pediatrics, 119, 182-191.
Kapp, K. (2012). The gamification of learning and instruction: Game-based methods and
strategies for training and education. San Francisco: Pfeifer.
Kolb A. & Kolb D. (2005). Learning styles and learning spaces: Enhancing experiential learning
in higher education. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 4, 2, 193-212.
Josephson, Michael S. (2002). Making ethical decisions. Marina de Rey, CA: Josephson Institute of Ethics.
Rawls, J. (1971). A theory of justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Rousseau, J.-J., Masters, R. D., Kelly, C., Rousseau, J.-J., & Rousseau, J.-J. (1992). Discourse on the origins
of inequality (second discourse) ; Polemics ; and, Political economy. Hanover, NH: Published for
Dartmouth College by University Press of New England.
Salen, K., & Zimmerman, E. (2004). Rules of play: Game design fundamentals. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press, p. 80.
Turnbull, C. (1983). Mbuti pygmies: Change and adaptation. TX: Holt Rinehart & Winston.
Teaching Strategies
The Syllabus as an Ethical Contract
Discussion Questions for Videos
"You Don't Just Throw Them Away"
Web Resources
Gaming Can Make a Better World
HERA: Humanities Education and Research Association
How Syllabi Can Help Combat Sexual Assault
The Game that Can Give You 10 Extra Years of Life
Module 2: Resources
Ethical Judgment
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Works Consulted
Matchett N. J. (2008). Ethics across the curriculum. In Moore S. L. (Ed.), Practical approaches to ethics
for colleges and universities (New Directions for Higher Education, No. 142, pp. 25-38).
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Milgram, S. (1969). Obedience to authority: An experimental view. NY: Harper & Row.
Teaching Strategies
Creating an Ethical Online Environment
Discussion Questions for Videos
Web Resources
A Brief History of Shia LaBeouf Copying the Work of Others
Harvard Says 125 Students May Have Cheated on a Final Exam
ReThinking Drinking: Alcohol and Your Health
Rock Legend Gene Simmons’ son in Manga Plagiarism Storm
Student’s Novel Faces Plagiarism Controversy
The Plagiarist: Why Stephen Ambrose is a Vampire
Images
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Module 1: Resources
What is Ethics?
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Works Consulted
Ametrano, I. M. (2014), Teaching Ethical Decision Making: Helping Students Reconcile Personal and
Professional Values. Journal of Counseling & Development , 92: 154–161.
Aristotle (1980), The Nicomachean ethics [Translated from the Ancient Greek with an introduction by D.
Ross. Revised by J. L. Ackrill and J. O. Urmson], Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Bok, D. C. (1976). Can ethics be taught?” Change, pp. 26-30.
Gardner, H., M. Csikszentmihalyi, and W. Damon. (2001). Good work: When excellence and ethics meet.
New York: Basic Books.
Garcia, J. G., Cartwright, B., Winston, S. M., & Borzuchowska, B. (2003). A transcultural model for ethical
decision making in counseling. Journal of Counseling and Development, 18, 268-277.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6678.2003.tb00253.x
James, C., Davis, K., Flores, A., Francis, J.M., Pettingill, L., Rundle, M. & Gardner, H. (2008). Young people,
ethics, and the new digital media: A synthesis from the Good Play Project (GoodWork® Project
Report Series, Number 54). Project Zero, Harvard School of Education.
Lesser, L. & Nordenhaug, E. (2004). Ethical statistics and statistical ethics: Making an Interdisciplinary
module. Journal of Statistics Education, 12(3),
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v12n3/lesser.html
Lueke, A., & Gibson, B. (2014). Mindfulness meditation reduces implicit age and race bias: The Role of
reduced automaticity of responding. Social Psychological and Personality Science, Online First.
Ozar, D. T. (2001). Ethics across the curriculum programs. Teaching Ethics, 2(1), 1-27.
Teaching Strategies
Spark the Conversation: Case Studies
Discussion Questions for Videos
Web Resources
"An Ethical and Sustainable Hamburger?"
"Ethics of the World’s First Synthetic Burger"
"Santa Clara University Markula Center for Applied Ethics"
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