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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Ethics Minor


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A minor in ethics enables students to develop a strong sense of moral responsibility and critical skills for moral reflection. It consists of required courses in global ethics or current ethical issues, coursework in philosophical ethics, as well as interdisciplinary electives. It also includes a capstone project to help students develop their ethical ability and awareness through service learning, a research or creative project. Such a minor can be combined with, and serve as enrichment to, any major program.

Program Learner Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

  • identify and implement major moral theories from diverse traditions;
  • demonstrate an understanding of the cultural and historical embeddedness of ethical theories;
  • evaluate moral issues from a plurality of perspectives;
  • develop a capacity for critical moral reasoning;
  • analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of given moral theories in dealing with contemporary ethical problems;
  • learn to account for one’s conduct within a larger community; and
  • develop a sensitivity to the central moral issues in a given discipline and the capacity to act in a morally responsible manner.

Courses in Philosophical Ethics Credits: (10)


 Choose two courses from the following:

Electives Credits: (8-10)


No more than 5 credits can be taken from one discipline.

Total Credits: 25-27


College and Department Information


Philosophy and Religious Studies Department  
College of Arts and Humanities  

Program Codes
PHILMINET, PHILMINETP

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