Syllabi

SYllabi

Syllabi

Integrating Virtue Together is a Virtues & Vocations initiative where faculty from across institutions and disciplines join a community of practice in integrating moral virtues into a course they teach. These syllabi are from courses taught by IVT participants at colleges and universities across the country. We provide these examples to inspire other faculty who want to cultivate character through their courses. 

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information technology

Syllabus: Coding Fundamentals

This introductory course teaches Python programming fundamentals and develops practical skills in collecting, analyzing, transforming, and visualizing data.

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Neuroscience

Syllabus: Neuroscience and Behavior Lab

This hands-on course introduces students to neuroanatomy, histology, electrophysiology, and behavior while developing skills in experimental design, data analysis, scientific communication, and learning through failure.

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Philosophy

Syllabus: Economy of Gift

This course explores how the “logic of the gift” can balance contract-based relationships, strengthen social bonds, and humanize civil society, government, and the market.

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business

Syllabus: Data Management

Students develop foundational data management skills for business analytics. The course also asks students to think ethically about data privacy, security, quality, and misuse, while cultivating integrity through hands-on labs and applied problem solving.

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Business

Syllabus: Negotiations

Through role plays, preparation worksheets, peer feedback, and reflective journals, students learn to ask better questions, understand others’ interests, and create agreements that build value rather than simply “win.”

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Civics

Syllabus: Intro to Community Engagement

An interdisciplinary examination of the theoretical and analytical tools essential for understanding and working in community as a person of character.

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Engineering

Syllabus: Modeling Cellular and Molecular Systems

Professor Cameron Kim researches strategies to incorporate ethics-guided design into bioengineering courses and character formation in engineers.

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statistics

Syllabus: Topics in Statistics

Through weekly quizzes and a semester-long group project, the course emphasizes accurate, transparent reporting of data analysis results, reproducibility, intellectual honesty, and appropriate citation of sources.

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Computer Science

Syllabus: Systems Programming

The course emphasizes hands-on practice through daily assignments, larger programming milestones, and exams, with a special focus on craftsmanship: writing clean, thoughtful, well-tested code and taking pride in work that goes beyond “done enough.”

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Business

Syllabus: Honors Futuring

Futuring enables business managers to spot emerging opportunities and threats early and develop innovative responses to serve changing needs.

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Business

Syllabus: Unstructured Data Analytics

Through Python assignments, analytics techniques, ethical discussions, and a final project, students learn to turn messy real-world data into insight while considering the broader implications of analytics and AI-related tools.

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Biology

Syllabus: Mammalian Physiology

This course encourages curiosity as students investigate how mammalian organ systems work, from cells and tissues to whole-body functions.

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Economics

Syllabus: Economic Inequality

This course asks students to examine inequality from multiple perspectives, weighing its causes, consequences, and possible policy responses.

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Education

Syllabus: Supervision & Instruction

Future school leaders practice leadership virtues, character development, and practical wisdom as they learn to build more ethical, responsive, and caring school communities.

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English

Syllabus: Discovery Seminar - Ethics in Fiction

Through ethics journals, class discussion, and literary analysis, students consider how fiction shapes their understanding of justice, love, empathy, and daily ethical life.

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Religion

Syllabus: Disability Ethics

Through first-person disability narratives, campus accessibility work, and engagement with disability mentors, students learn to challenge harmful assumptions and advocate for communities where disabled lives are honored.

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Business

Syllabus: Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

This course helps students connect ethical reasoning with civic responsibility through service-learning, reflection, and real-world business dilemmas.

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Engineering

Syllabus: Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design

This course helps biomedical engineering students practice empathy through human-centered medical device design, patient shadowing, empathy mapping, and reflection.

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Business

Syllabus: Ethics of Entrepreneurship

This course explores the ethical challenges faced by founders and entrepreneurial teams—from exaggerating a pitch to misusing customer data or automating bias in AI.

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