This 3-credit diploma programs will provide advanced training in managing questions of ethics in public life for students registered in another graduate program at Carleton other than the doctoral program in ethics and public affairs. The diploma draws both on social science methodologies and on analytical methods of ethics and political philosophy.

The diploma shares a common starting-point with the doctoral program in Ethics and Public Affairs. This core course will be team-taught by one faculty member who has expertise in the social sciences and another who is expert in ethics or political philosophy. Following the core course, diploma students will take an additional master’s-level course: Topics in Ethics and Public Affairs. The remaining requirement will be fulfilled by an elective course, which can include a practicum. The practicum is supported by a large network of ethics officers, practitioners, and consultants, and others who have interests and responsibilities for value-based work in government, civil society, and the private sector. In part, this network is represented by the Ethics Practitioners Association of Canada, which is headquartered in Ottawa.