North Carolina A&T State University

2009-10

The goal of this course is to welcome you into the chemistry research community at North Carolina A&T State University. The readings are designed to support and empower you, helping you to feel comfortable in your endeavors as a scholar. Online exercises will introduce the rewards of and obstacles to research; the causes and consequences of misconduct; the rights and obligations of professionals; the habits of excellent mentors; and the social responsibilities of researchers.

We will follow a three-step method for making moral decisions: my interests; our interests; all interests. The method will help you organize your thoughts as you move through the topics. It will also be useful long after you finish the course because novel ethical dilemmas may arise in your career. When facing difficult choices we need two skills: critical analysis and moral imagination. Our method helps you improve both skills.

You will also meet chemistry "heels" and "heros;" work through interactive exercises surveying policies, rules, and regulations; and join a discipline-specific seminar on the social responsibilities of chemistry researchers. Finally, you will identify sources of continuing education.

To begin, take a minute to acquaint yourself with the three tabs to your left. Click on each one--Schedule, Modules, and Assignments--and review the menus.

Ready to proceed? Click again on Schedule, insure you can see "0.0 Intro to course," and CLICK THERE.

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When taught by an ethicist in a face-to-face instructional setting, this seminar satisfies the responsible conduct of research training requirements of the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the America COMPETES Act. The seminar is being developed by the Model Curriculum for Land Grant Universities in Research Ethics (LANGURE) project. It is being evaluated by the Extend and Assess Research Ethics Education (EAREE) project. LANGURE is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. and EAREE by Grant No. . Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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