Today was orientation day. At 9:30 AM, Jacque led our group to the Quaker Meeting House in Oxford for a morning session filled with information sharing, getting-to-know-you activities, and a fun scavenger hunt. Students spent the afternoon traipsing all over the city. The students are excited and curious, fighting jet lag to varying degrees of success, but hanging in. It’s a lot of fun watching students build relationships when living so closely together. Learning how to live in community is an important part of the Study Abroad semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will need to do this quickly. Classes begin next week, and there is much academic work to be done. This semester I’m teaching two courses, “Introduction to Ethics,” and “Ethics and Social Issues.” These are bread-and-butter classes for me. I love what I get to teach this semester, especially in Oxford, a place that has been home to significant contributors to western moral philosophy and theological ethics. I’ll have more to share about my classes eventually, but not today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n