The Levan Online Ethics Resource Center aims to promote ethics across the USC curriculum by providing faculty with strategies for incorporating ethics into their courses, offering tips for effective ethics education, connecting them with the latest in moral education research, and providing ethics lesson-plans and multimedia resources relevant to their subject matters.

The Ethics Resource Center is organized by the following general categories:

THE ETHICS TOOLBOX: All the tools you need to develop an ethics lesson plan for your course: dilemmas, cases, podcasts, videos, newsfeeds (the latest ethics news articles), ethics newsletters (the latest ethics articles about your subject emailed directly to you), and ready to go lesson plans.  The resources in this section are organized by academic subject matter wherever possible.  In some cases, where there are a vast amount of resources available (e.g. case studies), the toolbox directs you to databases, directories, or lists where you can find resources that pertain specifically to your course. 

TEACHING ETHICS: This section focuses primarily on how ethics can be brought into the classroom effectively.  Here you'll find suggestions on how to formulate various types of ethics-focused assignments, help students develop good habits of ethical awareness, deliberation, and action, and how to assist them in overcoming the obstacles that stand in the way.  Also included in this section are links to general teaching resources from the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching.

CODES AND PRINCIPLES: Research shows that developing a code of ethics, communicating that code, and backing it up with sanctions decreases unethical behavior both at universities and in the work place.  This section gives you access to various USC honor codes, professional codes of ethics (by subject matter), and some insight into how to construct an effective code of ethics.

MORAL EDUCATION RESEARCH: The articles gathered in this section explore issues in moral development (what, if anything, constitutes it) and ethics education (what works, what doesn't, and why).

ETHICS AT USC: The final section of the site directs you to ethics events sponsored by the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, as well as to a general listing of the ethics-related courses on offer in the 2009-10 academic year.

* For help with resources or to recommend additional resources, contact The Levan Institute at usclevan@usc.edu. 

TEACHING ETHICS AT USC:

Marshall School of Business Faculty Workshop on Teaching Ethics

June 10, 2009 9am - 1pm

Co-sponsors: Levan Institute and USC Marshall School of Business

This workshop, which was developed and run by Dr. Paul Adler of the Marshall School of Business and Dr. Shlomo Sher of the Levan Institute, strove to help Marshall faculty bring ethics lessons and topics into business courses.  The workshop introduced Marshall faculty to a helpful model for thinking about ethical issues and effective ethical action, presented strategies for overcoming obstacles to effective ethics discussions and moral actions, suggested potential ways faculty can incorporate ethics into lesson plans, and highlighted the impact faculty support can have on student attitudes towards ethical issues in their profession.