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While Bok has made the teaching of ethics a priority since his installment in Massachusetts Hall 16 years ago, the University-wide ethics program which Thompson now heads and the establishment of an undergraduate Moral Reasoning Core requirement are Harvard's only comprehensive programs to integrate ethics into the curriculum...
Morality of the Core...
...When the Core Curriculum program was instituted at the University a number of years ago, a moral reasoning component was introduced. Undergraduates are now required to take a semester-long course on topics ranging from "Justice" to "Ethics and International Relations." The Philosophy Department also offers undergraduate courses on ethical theory...
Premised on the hope that "students will not only be aware of moral tradition, but will have begun to understand themselves as reasonable and moral people, who begin to think about their own choices," the Moral Reasoning Core requirement attempts to teach modes of thinking about ethics, says Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox, who offers a Moral Reasoning course...
Dillon Professor of French Civilization Stanley Hoffmann, who also teaches Moral Reasoning courses, says that although the creation of the Core requirement was "a very good thing," ethics "ought to be a part of the teaching of every topic." Hoffmann's statements echo the concerns of teachers and administrators at the professional schools, as they grapple with the question of how to integrate ethics into the curriculum...