Wits Philosophy AEP Program

[Aribiah Attoe]

Are you interested in a Masters degree in Applied Ethics? Do you have any Honours Degree or Post graduate Diploma? Are you a Professional, a Manager or in a Leadership position? If your answer to these questions is yes, or you know anyone who meets these criteria, then the Wits-Philosophy AEP Program is for you. For more details, please see below:

Overview

Experienced and well-qualified professionals, executives and leaders in all fields are invited to apply for admission to the intellectually challenging Postgraduate Programme in Applied Ethics offered by the Wits Philosophy Department. This programme, which will develop participants’ capacity to reason critically, constructively and responsibly about significant ethical issues, is part-time and specially designed to accommodate the schedules of working professionals in the Gauteng area. It leads to a Master of Arts degree (by course work and Research Report) in 2 years.

 

Courses offered include:

Methods of Applied Ethics (core course), Cultural Pluralism and Ethics, Ethics and the Environment, Ethics and International Affairs, Ethical Theory, Information and Privacy, Issues in Biomedical Ethics, Morality and the Law, Morality and the Marketplace, Social Justice, The Value of Life.

 

Acceptance Requirements

Applications are now being accepted for classes beginning in February or March of 2023.

 

Deadline:

• 15 November 2022 (SA citizens and permanent residents)

• 30 September 2022 (international applicants).

 

Interested persons should:

• Have qualifications at NQF level 8 (e.g. 3-year degree plus Honours or PG-Dip)

• Have at least one year’s experience in a professional, managerial, or leadership position;

• Possess very strong English comprehension and writing skills;

• Have ready and convenient access to e-mail and the internet;

• Be able to attend seminars on Saturday mornings on the Wits Campus (approx. 16 in the first year, 8 in the second).

 

Potential applicants should contact:

Dylan Futter, Department of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand

T 011 717 4344 | E (preferred): AEP.Phi...@wits.ac.za

www.wits.ac.za/course-finder/postgraduate/humanities/ma-applied-ethics-for-professionals/

 

 Best,

Aribiah David Attoe, PhD

ORCID No.: 0000-0001-9786-1824

Department of Philosophy

University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Member, The Conversational School of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria

Co-author: New Conversations on the Problem of Identity, Consciousness and Mind (Springer, 2019)

Guest Editor: "Special Issue on African Conceptions of the Meaning of Life", South African Journal of Philosophy (2020)

Author: Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics: The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Co-recipient: John Templeton Fund, via the Global Philosophy of Religion Project Grant, University of Birmingham.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry: https://iep.utm.edu/afr-mean/

 

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