University of Brighton

Course Details

Applied Ethics MA

Course Description

Questions of ethics have come to the fore of late in a broad range of professions and academic subject areas. There have of course been longstanding concerns with ethical standards and practices in a number of ‘old’ professions, signally in law and medicine, where they have often been part of the regulatory framework of Professional and Statutory bodies. More recently, however, questions of ethics and ethical practice(s) have become of substantial concern both to practitioners in a wide variety of fields (e.g. engineering ethics, research ethics) and to professional and academic researchers and scholars. Thus there are now academic journals devoted to the ethics of most professions; and philosophy and ethics as academic fields are increasingly concerned with application and practice. This Masters Programme draws on a number of areas of the University’s provision to identify and address ethical concerns in a variety of fields. On top of the core modules each pathway offers options designed for a specific disclipline and these taught elements lead to the culminating MA research project. Since students on the Programme will have differing professional and/or occupational experiences, you will benefit from being members of an interdisciplinary cohort who will have come to the Programme on the basis of a variety of intellectual trajectories. In the core modules, there will be a mix of “professional/occupational” and “academic” interests.

Course Duration

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1year

Career outcomes

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Applied Ethics MA University of Brighton