Ethics and Public Service, MALS

The Ethics and Public Service Program (EPS) brings to the level of graduate study one of North Central College’s central missions: to produce principled, active, citizen leaders. The program’s focus on ethics and public service aims to deepen our understanding of the crucial relationship of these two during a time which has witnessed enormous ethical lapses in public life by those who purport to serve the public. Besides gaining greater insight into various avenues of public service, students will also gain a greater ability to act as public intellectuals who can help the general public analyze and navigate the growing complexity of policy, its consequences, and its relationship to ethics. This program will be of special interest to those wishing to prepare for other advanced study or to work as writers and consultants on various issues of public concern, for working in the non-profit sector, or for becoming agents of change in their communities at any point in their lives and careers.