Ethics on Campus
 Resources
for Faculty
 Resources
for Students
Fostering research, improving ethics education, and providing
co-curricular ethics programs for students are all part of the
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics mission to heighten ethical
reflection and encourage ethical action.
Hackworth Grants for Faculty
and Student
Research
Twice a year, the Center awards Hackworth Grants to faculty
and students for research and teaching on topics from transitional
justice to corporate social responsibility to ethics in dance.
Applied Ethics Pathway
Part of the SCU Core Curriculum, pathways are clusters of courses with a common theme, allowing students to study the theme from a vareity of disciplinary or methodological perspectives. The Applied Ethics Pathway invites students to explore the application of critical ethical thinking to real-world problems, thereby deepening their understanding of their vocational and educational choices. Courses in this pathway address ethical issues in areas such as communication, economics and business, health care, politics, gender, sustainability, diplomacy and war.
Student
Fellowships and Internships
Undergraduates work with the Center to provide programs for
their peers through the Hackworth Fellows program. Projects
have included creating a statement of values for student athletes,
developing media ethics cases for use in communications classes,
and sponsoring a discussion series on the ethics of friendship.
In addition, the Center offers a fellowship in environmental
ethics. Internships in health care ethics at local hospitals
are also available for undergraduates.
Ethics
Center Scholars
The Center enjoys a vibrant scholarly community of more than
50 faculty with a research or teaching interest in ethics. They
work with all of the Center's program areas, providing expertise
and meeting on topics of common interest, such as reading groups
on bioethics and theological ethics.
Lectures
The Ethics at Noon lecture series brings experts from SCU and
the larger community to address a wide range of issues in ethics.
The Center's Regan Lecture Series, supported by a gift from
New York Life Insurance Co. in honor of William Regan III, is
aimed at bringing the larger community to SCU. Past lecturers
have included Jim Leach, chair of the National Endowment for
the Humanities, John T. Noonan Jr., judge on the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and eminent scholar of
Catholic moral theology, and Edmund Pellegrino, Chair of the
President's Council on Bioethics.
Staff
David
DeCosse brings a background in publishing, teaching, and
ethics scholarship to his role as director of campus ethics
programs. Formerly the newsroom manager of Ascribe Newswire,
DeCosse was an editor at Doubleday Books and has taught in the
SCU Religious Studies Department since 1999. He has his doctorate
in theological ethics from Boston College-Weston Jesuit School
of Theology.
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