The CAEP is a concurrent certificate that may be completed as part of a student’s elective credit. 

This certificate is designed to prepare undergraduate students from health science, engineering, business, humanities, science and social science programs to work together to identify and resolve the ethical, institutional and policy challenges posed by novel technologies that are highly promising but also potentially socially disruptive. 

The CAEP comprises 15 units made up of a total of five courses. Four of the courses (12 units) in this sequence of courses will prepare students for the certificate’s culminating fifth course (3 units), a 4th year seminar (PHILOS 4V03) in which students work together in interdisciplinary teams to practice the application of their knowledge.

The Certificate will recognize students for having gained core subject matter competencies and experience that significantly enhance their ability to work together and communicate effectively as members of such interdisciplinary research teams.

*New for 2024/25* Students accepted and enrolled in the Justice, Political Philosophy and Law Honours BA Program are eligible to apply for the Certificate for Applied Ethics and Policy.

All courses listed in the calendar are not always offered every year.

Students must be accepted by the Certificate Selection Committee in order to be accepted and enrolled in the Certificate for Applied Ethics and Policy. The Committee will consider supplemental applications soon after the end of the Winter term of each academic year, but only from students who are enrolled in an undergraduate program at McMaster University and who have completed one of PHILOS 2D03 or 2YY3.  Selections will be made on the basis of the student’s cumulative grades and answers to the supplemental application questions.

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