Undergraduate Offerings Overview
The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society develops educational initiatives for undergraduate students across campus with the aim to create opportunities for ethical reflection about the complex moral challenges facing our society today. To accomplish these goals, the Center prioritizes ethical reflection in the classroom and outside the traditional classroom setting.
Students from all majors on campus are encouraged to engage with our offerings. Find the right program that interests you, apply for an ethics grant to host your own event, or attend an undergraduate evening gathering to discuss thought-provoking questions related to ethics and philosophy. Explore all of the ways to get involved!
The Honors Program in Ethics in Society offers students in any major the opportunity to write a senior honors thesis on a topic that applies moral and political philosophy to a contemporary practical problem.
The Minor in Ethics in Society is open to students from any major who wish to build a more robust philosophical foundation for thinking about practical ethical issues.
The Ethics and Technology Minor exposes students to the moral complexity of new and emerging technological developments in our society and encourages them to think critically about their impact on our shared future.
The Center offers undergraduate students and student groups with two grant opportunities to fund events that encourages ethical reflection.
The Ethics Bowl is an intercollegiate competition that convenes student teams to present cases on ethically complex topics. Each year, the Stanford Practical Ethics Club sends a team to the annual California Regional Ethics Bowl competition.
The Stanford Practical Ethics Club (SPEC) is an official ASSU student club and was founded in 2017 to promote in-depth discussion of real-world ethical issues and to help students engage with ethical theory and practice.
The Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership Fellowship (ICDP) equips 40 undergraduates from five colleges across the nation, including Stanford, with the skills necessary to navigate and facilitate peer conversations across political differences.