Affiliations

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics is one of the world’s premier bioethics institutes, involved both in field-defining research and educational initiatives directed toward undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals.

The Center for Digital Ethics is an interdisciplinary research institute focused on ethical and political problems arising from emerging digital technologies.

The Medical Humanities Initiative is a collaboration between Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences and its Medical Center, aiming to situate health issues within wider social and cultural contexts. It supports both research and teaching in the medical humanities.

The Earth Commons is Georgetown’s “Institute for Environment and Sustainability.” It supports an undergraduate major and minor as well as graduate work, as well as faculty research, in environmental issues.

The Program in Disability Studies, which “gives students tools to analyze how societies and individuals grapple with physical and mental differences and explores how disability is embedded in culture and shaped by stigma and social power,” offers a suite of courses, an undergraduate minor, and a PhD/MA certificate.

The Technology, Ethics, and Society Program is an undergraduate program that gives students “tools to understand and evaluate the way digital technology is shaping our world, and to imagine new ways to ensure that it serves human values.” It supports an undergraduate minor and concentration as well as a major in computer science, ethics, and society.

Cognitive science is “interdisciplinary study of the mind.” Georgetown has an Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, which offers both an undergraduate program in cognitive science as well as a Ph.D concentration.