The Ethics Across the Curriculum Workshops for the ITESM
ITESM and Loyola University Chicago faculty meeting after class
The Workshops
On May 29, 2002, eighty five faculty from the ITESM (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, widely known as "el Tec") arrived to Loyola's Lake Shore Campus, for a nine-day Ethics Across the Curriculum workshop - what was to be the first of a series of EAC workshops for the Tec faculty.
During those nine days, the participants attended daily lectures on general and applied ethics, interspersed with group discussions, case analyses and exercises facilitated by Loyola graduate assistants. Participants were provided with basic and secondary bibliography, and a concrete goal (the development of a teaching unit) to complete during those two weeks. Participants also had the opportunity to visit Chicago, and the workshop was closed with a lovely evening on a boat cruise.
On December 2002 it was the turn of the Loyola faculty and graduate assistants to travel to Monterrey, México, to conduct a second Workshop for more than 90 faculty from the different Tec campuses. A similar agenda was conducted, and participants had the opportunity to visit downtown Monterrey and the Museo del Desierto (Museum of the Desert), and to socialize with each other and make projects to bring the different Tec campuses closer together.
The Third Ethics Across the Curriculum Workshop for the ITESM was conducted on June 2003, this time in Guadalajara, México. A similar assortment of faculty from the different Tec campuses used the resources of the Guadalajara campus, working intensively on the development of their ethics-teaching skills, and still finding time to relax and immerse themselves in the cultural riches of this wonderful city.
The Fourth Ethics Across the Curriculum Workshop for the ITESM was conducted on May 23-29, 2004, this time at the Tec campus at Querétaro, México.
- More information on the Ethics Across the Curriculum Workshops for the ITESM can be found at Loyola University Chicago Philosophy Department's Website. Find out more...
Follow-Up: The "Ethics in Today's World" Videoconference Series
The Ethics Across the Curriculum Workshops for the ITESM were not treated as isolated events, but rather as part of an ongoing collaborative project between Loyola University Chicago and the Tec. As part of this project, Loyola developed two series of videoconferences, lectures given by Loyola faculty under the name of the "Ethics in Today's World" videoconferences, which ran from January to May 2003 (the First Series) and from January to May 2004 (the Second Series).
These conferences were offered in conjuction with the Philosophical Writing Program, a series of activities devised to provide Tec students with training in writing academic English.
- The "Ethics in Today's World" First Videoconference Series (January-May 2003
- The "Ethics in Today's World" Second Videoconference Series (January-March 2004)
- The Philosophical Writing Program
The Loyola M.A. Degree in Social Philosophy
As part of this ongoing collaboration, 15 faculty from different Tec campuses arrived at Loyola to enroll in Loyola's Masters program in Social Philosophy. Students are required by this program to take 10 courses (two in the area of Moral Philosophy, five elective courses from Philosophy or other Loyola departments, and three courses in the area of Social Philosophy, including a final Integrative Seminar, plus up to three prerequisite courses in the History of Philosophy when needed). Most of these faculty expect to attain their M.A. Degree in Social Philosophy by the end of Summer 2004.