The Practicum is an ongoing series aimed at helping people learn how to use the basic tools of ethical inquiry and deliberation.

Each session of the Practicum focuses on one particular idea or skill that may be useful for thinking more clearly about values in practical situations. Participants will have the opportunity to acquire and practice using each of these tools in an informal, collaborative setting.

The Practicum is open to all students and faculty; it may be of special interest to students currently enrolled in ethics courses so, if you are teaching such a course this semester, please let your students know about it.

The inaugural session of The Practicum will focus on the idea of virtue.

As Aristotle would have it, a virtue is a habit relative to a particular emotion or impulse, or to a particular domain of human activity.

At this session of the Practicum, we will practice finding the connection between big ideas like 'courage' and 'integrity' and 'self-control,' the particular domains within which they apply, and the practical contexts in which they might show themselves - or fail to show themselves.