Rhetoric as Commitment: Ethics and Everyday Life

Sutton and Collins describe their team-taught humanities course that combines “Introduction to Ethics” with “Argument-Based Research.” The course asks students to examine ethical situations and seeks to establish a forum for deliberation in hopes that students will learn to express themselves more persuasively and self-critically while gaining empathy to those whose views and practices differ from their own. The ultimate goal is that rhetoric and ethics reach further from the classroom and into every day life.