PHIL 249 - Environmental Ethics

Credits: 3

Description
Explores fundamental concepts of human moral obligations towards other living things and natural systems. Topics include the rights of animals and new candidates for an adequate environmental ethic.

Student Learning Outcomes

Develop and apply a critical method for ethical decision making in an environmental context.
Recognize current issues in environmental ethics and reflect on possible moral choices and current solutions offered for these issues.
Demonstrate the skills of critical reading and writing in an environmental context.
Understand and explain major ethical theories underlying decisions in environmental ethics.
Write an argumentative essay on a particular current issue in environmental ethics.

Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None

Graded: Letter Grade