ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how a consideration of ethics has been incorporated into one course in the University of North Texas (UNT) business anthropology program, namely Design Anthropology. It illustrates the publishing freedom that students and professor enjoy. Students in the Design Anthropology course learned about ethics through initial class discussions, safeguards that the instructor built into the course and guidelines on the disclosure of findings. Most importantly, they gained hands-on experience in negotiating ethical challenges through the experience of conducting ethnographic fieldwork for a client project. A key aspect of the pedagogy of the Design Anthropology course, as Christina Wasson has designed it, is that students engage in a semester-long research project for a real client. The kitchen media study conducted for Motorola during the fall 2011 Design Anthropology course at UNT resulted in valuable findings for the client and valuable lessons in ethics for the class.
