| Researchers are professionally and morally obliged to explore and examine the moral, social, legal, or political implications of the research conducted by themselves and others. This course focuses on the ethical dimensions of the academic environment, specifically the process of reflecting critically on ethical questions faced by academic researchers in a wide variety of fields. It will be concerned with historical, social, and other contextual factors affecting research in the university environment. Ethics will be defined, and discussions will cover how ethics of research is organized, enforced and assessed. Related research ethics topics including professionalism, mentoring of graduate students, codes of conduct, academic misconduct, plagiarism, research integrity, right doing (vs. wrong-doing) and research involving animals will also be covered. |
