EA syllabi and teaching materials

post by Julia_Wise · 2018-09-05T18:19:10.207Z · EA · GW · 6 comments

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      Ethics for Do-Gooders at University of Graz
      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
    
      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!

Ethics for Do-Gooders at University of Graz

Summer 2020, Dominic Roser

Syllabus

EA course at Brown University

Spring 2020, Emma Abele and Nick Whittaker, based on Harvard Arete fellowship syllabus

Syllabus [EA · GW]

In Depth Fellowship at EA Oxford

Reading list

AI alignment reading group at MIT

Fall 2019

Reading list

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

Syllabus

“The Psychology of Effective Altruism” at University of New Mexico

Spring 2018, Geoffrey Miller

Syllabus

“Training Changemakers” program

Spring 2018, Philanthropy Advisory Fellowship at Harvard University

Program plan

“The Ethics and Politics of Effective Altruism” at Stanford University

Spring 2018, Ted Lechterman

Syllabus

“Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence” at London School of Economics

2017/2018, Luc Bovens and Stephan Chambers

Summary

Seminar on EA at University of Toronto

Fall 2017, Jordan Thomson

Summary

"Effective altruism" course at University of St Andrews

2016-2017, Theron Pummer and Tim Mulgan

Syllabus

“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

Syllabus

EA course at University of Saint Andrews

Fall 2016, Theron Pummer and Tim Mulgan

Syllabus

EA course at University of York

Spring 2016, Richard Yetter Chappell

Syllabus

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:

Syllabus 2015

Syllabus 2016

Readings

Retrospective after leading the first class

Practical Ethics course at Oxford

Michaelmas term 2014, Julian Savulescu

Outline (with syllabus available)

Syllabus

Stanford “Doing Good in the 21st Century” course for high schoolers

Description

Taught Spring 2014 by Michael Dickens and Kelsey Piper

Ethics course at UC San Diego

(with EA emphasis)

Taught Winter 2014 by Theron Pummer

Syllabus

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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