Whether you're considering the fairness of capital punishment or your roommate's right to hang a poster you disagree with, as a student at Santa Clara University, you're going to be thinking about ethics.
Every undergraduate takes at least one course in ethics. At the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, we also offer a rich program of events on ethics in almost any field you can think of, and we engage students in peer-led dialogue about ethics in everyday life.
Center fellowships and internships allow students to pursue interests in almost any area of ethics, including business, the environment, engineering, and health care.
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics invites applications from current Santa Clara University sophomores and juniors (rising juniors and seniors) for the Hackworth Fellowship in Applied Ethics.
The goal of the program is to have Fellows engage more deeply with the application of ethics to a topic of concrete concern, to complete an important project related to that concern, and to grow as an ethical leader. In order to pursue this goal, Fellows are expected either to develop their own programs in an area of interest to them or to work with existing programs at the Ethics Center.
Each fellow will develop a proposal to conduct research on a practical ethics issue in government, be engaged with Markkula Center projects at the intersection of public policy and government/political ethics, and be placed in a government office for an internship experience for part of the year.
Plans for the 2024-25 academic year will include options for research and curriculum projects on civics education and engagement, ethical culture in governments, and ethical approaches to voting and elections in the United States, as well as fellows’ individual ethics research projects.
Interns are placed in ethics and compliance divisions of Silicon Valley companies.
Fellows explore the ethics of sustainability on campus.
A debate group on ethical issues, the Ethics Bowl team competes regionally and nationally.
Fellows work on projects at the intersection of policy and ethics.
Students create programs for their peers on ethical issues.
Interns shadow doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals in hospitals and hospices.
The fellow serves as a peer mentor to students in the Health Care Ethics Internship and develops an ethics project with particular relevance to students and alumni.
Interns are engaged in all aspects of Ethics Center communication and digital marketing channels.
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Hackworth grants are available to students doing research on ethics and may include money for travel, supplies, and fees
Graduating seniors are honored for excellence in ethics research or practice
Developed by a member of SCU's student government, these resources include case studies and sample codes of ethics