HD 6450 - [Ethical Challenges in Behavioral and Brain Sciences]

Spring. Next Offered: 2019-2020. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with HD 4450.

R. Sternberg.

The course will examine ethical challenges in the behavioral and brain sciences. Topics include, among others, selection of subjects, data analysis, data reporting, informed consent, debriefing, academic dishonesty, confidentiality, conflict of interest, deception, reviewing and editing, grading, relationships with colleagues and students, cultural differences, grant expenditures. Course requirements are three brief-essay quizzes, 5-page reflection paper, group and individual presentations.

Outcome 1: Compare and contrast alternative approaches to, application of ethical principles in behavioral and brain sciences.

Outcome 2: Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of how scholars have approached ethical challenges.

Outcome 3: Evaluate claims regarding ethical solutions to problems of ethics in teaching, research, and service.

Outcome 4: Apply what one has learned about ethics to one’s work.

Outcome 5: Critique with others research in the field of ethics.