ETHICS 450S
What Should I Do With My Life? The Art of Choosing Well
Katherine Jo
Description from DukeHub
How can you make the choices that lead to a good life? And what does this even mean? This course provides the opportunity to ponder, critique, and reflectively engage diverse perspectives on a life well-lived. We'll explore topics such as purpose, meaning, accomplishment, success, failure, character, habits, friendship, community, and responsibility. Readings, exercises, and discussion will invite students to examine their present lives and develop a thoughtful and practical vision for their lives after Duke.
Skills
No skill passed the confidence bar. Weak matches go to review instead of this page: an AI pass that has to quote the description, then a person.
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethical"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 15 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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