Courses

Seminar in Ethical Values (YR)

Section 11, Fall 18

Schedule Information

Enrollment: 6/6

Credits: 0

Course Description

A joint offering with the program in Medical Humanities, this Seminar in Ethical Values examines memory in professional and personal life. Law, medicine and other professions, like individuals, have complex relationships with time and tradition. What and how we remember (or choose not to) powerfully influences the present and the future. Readings will include Sophocles' play Antigone as well as works by James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and Jorge Luis Borges.

Course Requirements

Exam Info:

Midterm Type (if any): None

Description: None

Final Type (if any): None

Description:

Written Work Product

Written Work Product:

Other Work

Other Course Details

Prerequisites: See Fall course description. Because the credits in this course count toward the JD Program Professional Skills requirement, JD candidates will be given enrollment priority for this class. Concurrencies: None

Mutually Exclusive With: None

Laptops Allowed: No

First Day Attendance Required: No

Course Notes: The Seminar will meet on September 17 and October 22 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the fall term, and on three Monday evenings to be determined in the spring term.

Graduation Requirements

*Satisfies Writing Requirement: No

**Credits For Prof. Skills Requirement: No

Satisfies Professional Ethics: No

*Yes means professor requires everyone in the course to submit a substantial research paper (which is the requirement standard in Academic Policies), so no paperwork required to be submitted to SRO. No means student must timely submit paperwork to SRO if intending to use a paper in this course to satisfy the Writing Requirement.

**Yes indicates course credits count towards UVA Law’s Prof. Skills graduation requirement, not necessarily a skills requirements for any particular state bar.