I’m teaching a very standard slate of courses this semester: two sections of Business Ethics and two of Introduction to Philosophy. (This is in addition to the online Business Ethics sections I also teach most terms.)
Last time I taught Business Ethics I went back to using Ciulla’s Honest Work as the primary textbook (after a couple of semesters of using the Shaw text) and I am using it again this term. It’s a reader, and I’ve decided prefer using a reader to a monograph. My main change to the course this term has been to reorder the units so that they are grouped in a more thematic way; they had been in the order they appeared in the textbook, rather than a more thoughtful grouping.
I am continuing my “classic texts” approach to Introduction to Philosophy, in which we read relatively few authors in depth (Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Mill). I haven’t made many substantive changes to the course for this term. I have a tendency to meddle with my courses every semester or so, which makes a lot of work for myself, but I restrained myself this time around. Plato is one of my favorite authors to teach and gets me especially enthusiastic, so I actually spend an entire third of the class on Plato, as mad as that may sound!
Best wishes to students and colleagues for a successful spring semester.