Ethics Fundamentals

Ethics impact you every day – in your personal choices, in your workplace, in your government, and more. Understanding ethics is integral to understanding different perspectives of right versus wrong and will fundamentally shift your world view.

This course serves as the introduction to some of the biggest concepts within ethics and set up the rest of the Ethics Certificate. Your instructor, Guthrie Weinschenk, is a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois and has extensively researched different schools of ethical philosophy to provide you a generalist, applicable understanding of ethics.

Topics in this course include:

• The Trolley Problem

• Ethics in Corporations

• The Ethics of Nudges

• Dark Patterns

• Inspiring Ethical Change

• Ethical Leadership

This course is a FREE course and it is the first course in our Ethics Certificate. Once you register for the course you can access it 24 hours a day, and learn at your own pace on either a desktop, laptop or mobile device. Become a learner. Click the "Register" button at the top of this page now and get started right away to learn the fundamentals of behavioral economics.

Who is this course for?

Genuinely, this course is for everyone. Whether you’re in an entry-level job or a CEO of a Fortune 100 company, you deal with ethics every day.

About The Instructor: Guthrie Weinschenk, J.D.

Guthrie has his J.D. from the Loyola University School of Law in Chicago, and dual B.S. degrees in Economics and International Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

He consults, teaches, and specializes in business strategy, behavioral economics, and ethics. As the Chief Operations Officer and Behavioral Economist at The Team W, he is in charge of business administration, product development and business strategy. He is the host of the podcast Human Tech and author of the book I Love You Now Read This Book (It's About Decision Making and Behavioral Economics). Guthrie currently lives in Chicago, IL.