Davis is nice, but I honestly cannot stand his class. Ethics is an important course for engineers, but he makes it unbearable. Once you complete every single assignment, and not miss a single class, you only get a B. You have to get "high pass" on 4 assignments which basically means you're writing 6 page essays and THEN you have to do 4 extra credit activities outside of class AND an assignment attached to each of those activities to get an A. If you miss a class you have to handwrite an alternate assignment of like 400 words, which is ridiculous. I think if you have an easy semester, the workload for this class isn't too much, but genuinely if you have a hard semester, are in lots of CIOs, or have a job, this class is going to be tiring. Please just pick a different professor.

This class is very easy to get an A in. The class structure is set up a little weird, as to get an A, you have to have "four high passes on the four assignments," which basically just means you do the assignment + the little extra bit that he asks you to do, "four extra credit assignments," which means you go to four out-of-class guest lectures and write a like half-page essay about what you learned, and you go to class every day. I love Professor Davis, he is probably my favorite professor that I have had at UVA so far, and he makes his class very interesting every single time. My only downside is that there is a lot of out-of-class reading and writing, but the free A makes up for it.

This was a class that I took because I took as it's a requirement for my engineering degree. As someone who isn't really interested in many classes outside of engineering, and someone who very much felt that STS1500 was a waste of time, I enjoyed this class more than expected. Some of the moral and ethical theories were interesting and provide a unique way to approach ethical challenges. As an instructor, I believe Professor Davis is still newer to the department, but it seems he has made it easier to get a good grade in the class (wherein before it was either B or A he introduced ways to get B+ and A-). As a professor Davis is extremely welcoming and encourages diverse opinions in discussion or debate. Additionally, I found that if you do all the assignments it is not difficult to get an A.