Experiential Ethics is an ethics of science and technology course where students gain theoretical and practical tools to reflect critically on their personal, professional, and political roles. It covers topics such as the politics of artifacts, values in scientific inquiry, discriminatory design, and algorithmic fairness. Students engage in conversations about their own values as well as the moral, social, and political dimensions of their current studies and future careers.

For the past two years I have been involved in the Experiential Ethics program as a primary instructor (2022, 2023) and as a director (2023-2024). In this time I gained experience of all the facets of administering an academic program — from course design, progress reports, and training our teaching fellows to student recruitment and advertising.

Together with Eliza Wells and Bess Rothman, I designed a syllabus for a more intensive version of the course that emphasizes the social and political dimensions of scientific inquiry and technological development. Our main goal is to illuminate the socially embedded nature of their agency through concepts such as social roles and structures, and give our students tools to think and act more critically in their personal, professional, and political lives.