A Framework for Making Ethical Decisions |Course Syllabi |Resources

Making Choices was created with the support of a National Science Foundation grant.  The central premise of our work recognizes the cultural “situatedness” of making ethical choices. The curriculum we have developed places its emphasis upon the global and cross-cultural contexts for ethical decision-making.  It examines ethics across a very broad range of situations, using the perspectives of social science, humanities and the sciences. The course has been developed and taught in a highly collaborative way, involving researchers at Zhejiang University, the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Brown University.

Videoconference between Brown and Zhejiang universities

PARTICIPANTS

Sheila Bonde is Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Clyde Briant is Professor of Engineering and Otis E. Randall University Professor at Brown University.

Paul Firenze received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University and is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown.

Julianne Hanavan is Director of Research Ethics and Education Policy at Brown University.

Amy Huang is a doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University.

Min Li is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Office of International Relations at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

N.C. Narayanan is Associate Professor in the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

D. Parthasarathy is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Hongqin Zhou is Associate Professor of Education in the School of International Studies at Zhejiang University.