EA syllabi and teaching materials
post by Julia_Wise · 2018-09-05T18:19:10.207Z · score: 44 (20 votes) · EA · GW · 6 commentsContents
EA course at Brown University
In Depth Fellowship at EA Oxford
AI alignment reading group at MIT
Arete fellowship at MIT
Safety and control for artificial general intelligence
“The Psychology of Effective Altruism” at University of New Mexico
“Training Changemakers” program
“The Ethics and Politics of Effective Altruism” at Stanford University
“Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence” at London School of Economics
Seminar on EA at University of Toronto
"Effective altruism" course at University of St Andrews
“How to actually change the world” session at MIT
EA course at St. Catherine’s University
EA course at University of Saint Andrews
EA course at University of York
EA Syllabus
EA courses at UC Berkeley
Materials:
Practical Ethics course at Oxford
Stanford “Doing Good in the 21st Century” course for high schoolers
Ethics course at UC San Diego
Peter Singer’s Coursera MOOC
Other resources
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I've been collecting a list of all the known courses taught about EA or closely related topics. Please let me know if you have others to add!
EA course at Brown University
Spring 2020, Emma Abele and Nick Whittaker, based on Harvard Arete fellowship syllabus
In Depth Fellowship at EA Oxford
AI alignment reading group at MIT
Fall 2019
Arete fellowship at MIT
Fall 2018, MIT EA group
Syllabus with discussion prompts
Safety and control for artificial general intelligence
Fall 2018 at UC Berkeley, Andrew Critch and Stuart Russell
“The Psychology of Effective Altruism” at University of New Mexico
Spring 2018, Geoffrey Miller
“Training Changemakers” program
Spring 2018, Philanthropy Advisory Fellowship at Harvard University
“The Ethics and Politics of Effective Altruism” at Stanford University
Spring 2018, Ted Lechterman
“Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence” at London School of Economics
2017/2018, Luc Bovens and Stephan Chambers
Seminar on EA at University of Toronto
Fall 2017, Jordan Thomson
"Effective altruism" course at University of St Andrews
2016-2017, Theron Pummer and Tim Mulgan
“How to actually change the world” session at MIT
Fall 2016, Angelina Li and Daniel Ziegler
Evaluation and course materials
EA course at St. Catherine’s University
Fall 2016, Jeff Johnson and Kristine West
EA course at University of Saint Andrews
Fall 2016, Theron Pummer and Tim Mulgan
EA course at University of York
Spring 2016, Richard Yetter Chappell
EA Syllabus
Stefan Schubert and Pablo Stafforini
This syllabus is intended for use in philosophy, political science, or general humanities programs.
EA courses at UC Berkeley
In spring 2015 and 2016, students at UC Berkeley have led a full-semester class on effective altruism.
Organizers spring 2015: Ajeya Cotra, Oliver Habryka
Organizers spring 2016: Ajeya Cotra, Rohin Shah
Materials:
Retrospective after leading the first class
Practical Ethics course at Oxford
Michaelmas term 2014, Julian Savulescu
Outline (with syllabus available)
Stanford “Doing Good in the 21st Century” course for high schoolers
Taught Spring 2014 by Michael Dickens and Kelsey Piper
Ethics course at UC San Diego
(with EA emphasis)
Taught Winter 2014 by Theron Pummer
Peter Singer’s Coursera MOOC
(Adapted from Practical Ethics course at Princeton, fall 2013)
You can join the course to see all materials.
Other resources
EA teaching resources database from EA St. Andrews
Suggested reading list by Pablo Stafforini
EA reading list by Oisín Moran and Richard Batty
Facebook group on EA for teachers (mostly aimed at elementary to high school)
Giving Games by The Life You Can Save, including lesson plan
Students for High-Impact Charity
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Check out the new EA teaching resources database (built at St Andrews University): https://effectivealtruism.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/?_ga=2.220916632.1221540258.1574519560-1711956814.1566911816
If MIT's alignment reading group is here, this course should also belong to the list: AGI Safety @ UC Berkley (Fall 2018).
This is an excellent collection - thank you!
Here's another one: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8i3Wdy4FuJbSDQr5k/a-semester-long-course-in-ea [EA · GW]
Also the EA Oxford In-Depth Fellowship