Results of the December 3, 2011 California Regional Ethics Bowl:

• 1st Place: University of California Santa Cruz
• 2nd Place: California State University Chico

Thanks to all the participating judges, teams, and coaches for an extremely interesting and successful Ethics Bowl. 

2011 Participating Teams:

Univeristy of Southern California

California State University Chico (Teams 1 and Team 2)

National Hispanic University

Azusa Pacific University

San Jose State University 

University of California Santa Cruz (Team 1 and Team 2)

University of California Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara City College

More about the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl:

Teams of undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the United States and throughout the world qualify for the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) through a system of regional bowls, such as the Ethics Bowl California Regionals. Both the regional and national bowls are sponsored by the Association for Professional and Practical Ethics (APPE).

The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, now in its 16th year, combines a competitive tournament with a valuable educational experience for undergraduate students. Students explore practical ethical problems and improve their ethical reasoning through case analysis and debate competition.

In the Ethics Bowl, a moderator poses questions to teams of three to five students. Questions may concern ethical problems on wide ranging topics, such as the classroom (e.g. cheating or plagiarism), personal relationships (e.g. dating or friendship), professional ethics (e.g. engineering, law, medicine), or social and political ethics (e.g. free speech, gun control, etc.) Questions are posed from the set of ethical cases given to teams prior to the competition. A panel of judges evaluates answers using the following criteria: intelligibility, focus on ethically relevant considerations, avoidance of ethical irrelevance, and deliberative thoughtfulness.

Details for 2012 California Regional Ethics Bowl TBA.  For further information, contact us via email at usclevan@usc.edu or by mail at

USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics
520 Ahmanson Building
825 Bloom Walk
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1481