Ethics
What makes some things right and others wrong? Are kindness, honesty and integrity the best policy? Or are they a mug’s game?
Modules in this area are devoted to exploring what makes some things right and others wrong. Some consider fundamental questions of whether anything really is genuinely right or wrong.
Explore the ethical basis for personal and professional integrity today. Understand the ethical flashpoints that have shaped the world.
Ethics modules:
52 modules available.
This information is for the 2024/25 academic year.
IF YOU ARE AN INCOMING YEAR ONE STUDENT, YOU SHOULD ONLY CHOOSE LEVEL 1 MODULES.
| Module Code | Module Title | Level |
|---|---|---|
| ARAB1150 | Early and Medieval Islamic History | 1 |
| CLAS1400 | The Roman World: An Introduction | 1 |
| IDEA1000 | Professional Ethics: Challenges and Crises | 1 |
| IDEA1100 | Science & Society: An Ethical View | 1 |
| LUBS1010 | Understanding Social Enterprises | 1 |
| LUBS1291 | Economic Perspectives and Controversies | 1 |
| LUBS1755 | Business and Society (Combined) | 1 |
| LUBS1760 | Business and Society (Organisation Theory) | 1 |
| LUBS1765 | Business and Society (Social Theory) | 1 |
| MEDV1080 | Religion and Culture in the Western Middle Ages | 1 |
| PHIL1005 | The Mind | 1 |
| PHIL1080 | The Good, the Bad, the Right, the Wrong | 1 |
| PIED1100 | British Politics | 1 |
| PIED1201 | Global Development Challenges | 1 |
| PIED1212 | Making of the Modern World | 1 |
| PIED1511 | International Politics | 1 |
| PIED1601 | Freedom, Power and Resistance: An Introduction to Political Ideas | 1 |
| PSYC1610 | Forensic Psychology | 1 |
| SOEE1390 | Introduction to Business, Environment and Corporate Responsibility | 1 |
| THEO1133 | Introduction to Christian Theology | 1 |
| THEO1960 | Religion in Modern Britain | 1 |
| ARAB2015 | The Shari’a: Theory, Practice, Transformations | 2 |
| ARAB2066 | Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict | 2 |
| ARAB2190 | Global Jihad: From the Taliban to ISIS | 2 |
| ARAB2310 | Modern Middle Eastern History | 2 |
| EAST2008 | The Making of Modern Thailand | 2 |
| HIST2103 | Later Victorian England: Politics, Society and Culture | 2 |
| IDEA2000 | Leadership Ethics | 2 |
| IDEA2001 | Love: Ethical, Social and Political Issues | 2 |
| LLLC2222 | Violent and Sexually Offending Young People | 2 |
| LUBS2160 | Principles of Marketing | 2 |
| PECI2714 | Politics, Identity and Performance | 2 |
| PIED2601 | Revolution and Reaction: Political Problems in the 20th Century | 2 |
| PIED2602 | Justice, Community and Conflict | 2 |
| PRHS2000 | Human Rights and Religion | 2 |
| SLSP2731 | Central Problems in Sociology | 2 |
| SOEE2160 | Climate Change: Science and Impacts | 2 |
| EDUC3903 | Children, Families and Cultural Diversity: Philosophical Perspectives | 3 |
| FOAH3150 | Religion and Violence | 3 |
| GEOG3121 | Creating Alternative Futures | 3 |
| HIST3450 | American History, American Historians | 3 |
| HIST3710 | Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State | 3 |
| IDEA3000 | Ethics of Artificial Intelligence | 3 |
| LUBS3001 | Gender and Equality at Work in Comparative Perspective | 3 |
| LUBS3002 | Diversity Management | 3 |
| PIED3611 | Radical Political Ideas | 3 |
| PIED3640 | Ethics and Politics of Human Rights | 3 |
| SLSP3211 | State Crime and Immorality | 3 |
| SLSP3500 | Gender, Technologies and the Body | 3 |
| SOEE3630 | Strategic Energy Issues | 3 |
| THEO3190 | Religions and Global Development | 3 |
| THEO3280 | Religion, Politics and the Future | 3 |