Environmental Ethics Certificate
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Ethical Foundations | 3 | |
| Contemporary Moral Problems | ||
or PHIL 2000 | World Philosophies | |
or PHIL 2200 | Introduction To Philosophy | |
| 2. Professional Ethics | 3 | |
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| 3. Applied Ethics 1 | 3 | |
| Business Ethics | ||
or PHIL 3370 | Medical Ethics | |
or PHIL 3400 | ||
or PHIL 3560 | Aesthetics | |
| Total Hours | 9 | |
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This list is recommended for students, however, any upper division Philosophy course at the 3000-4000 level can serve as an Applied Ethics course.
- Subject Expertise: Students will be able to define and explain key debates about our ethical relation to the land and competing approaches to our responsibility to maintain and manage human and ecological interactions.
- Critical Engagement: Students will be able to critically evaluate and defend arguments and positions in environmental ethics, including concepts involving sustainability, environmental conservation, animal and land-ethics, and responsible stewardship of the environment.
- Analysis and Expression: Students will be able to articulate and defend their own positions in environmental moral controversies and responsibilities including in particular questions over the balance between consumption and conservation. Students will be able to explain their reasoning according to the historical and intellectual context of discussions concerning environmental ethics.
- Application: Students will be able to use philosophical argument in the consideration of novel and ongoing questions about topics involving the environment and its management.