Introduction to Ethics, PHIL 308-50

As all of us Honors students have learned, what makes an honors course different from the general classes is the phrase, “its not more work, its different work”. With introduction to ethics, this phrase is still very evident.

First, I would like to acknowledge what a wonderful course this is. As the course title states, PHIL 308 is meant to open the students minds up to the discussion of ethics, and what arguments seem to drive human behavior through the discovery of ethics. For any student, in the honor college or not, this class is meant to be confusing, and to even frustrate the students as you delve into controversial territory, and will boggle the mind of any person as you learnt the hypotheses and theories that are applied to ethics. However, being in the honors section of this class has once again provided me with a unique experience.

As in many honors classes, this section was small, which allowed us to work together in veering into this interesting and sometimes confusing topics. With all of us knowing each other already, one can imagine how easily it was for us all to easily veer off into talking about the subjects we love and would love to explore in this ethics course. However, being in this class, the part that truly set this apart from other classes as an honors course is the depth we go to together as we learned, and configured our end-of-semester papers. As a part of this class, one of the only assignments we do is the paper in which we construct our own  form of argument to write about a certain topic. Like other classes, we had to wrote our papers and prepare to turn them in, but we then had our own ‘research symposium” days in which we presented our papers. it was when we presented these that I felt best exemplified the honors class, since I never get such detailed, feedback ad discussion as when I am in a class such as this. Being so familiar with my peers, we are always open and willing to contribute to each others work; this is what I love about Honors.