Capstone Seminar: Ethics & Society Certificate

Description from DukeHub

This intensive senior seminar is the capstone for the Ethics & Society Certificate. The students choose a topic, read about and discuss that topic, and then write a book together on that topic, editing each other's chapters. Students bring together interdisciplinary insights from previous work in the certificate program and work collaboratively to produce their book. Instructor consent required. This course is only open to seniors pursuing the Ethics & Society Certificate.

Skills

• writingdescription: "write" and 3 more

AI-resilient: 3 of 5 3/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "collaboratively"
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethics"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• ✓Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 5 seats per section

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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