Ethics Minor


Ethics Minor

The Ethics minor is intended to provide students of diverse major fields of study a way to focus and develop their interest in ethics both by offering them a core of courses essential to an understanding of the field of ethics and by advising them in the selection of courses that enable them to develop depth and detail in theoretical, professional and applied ethics.

Ethics Core--Required:
Philosophy:3
Ethics
Religious Studies:3
Religion and Ethics
Introductory Courses: select one of the following: 3
Religious Studies:
Religions of the World
American Religious Diversity
Philosophy or Religious Studies:
Ethics in Business (can count in introductory, applied, or elective categories, but only one)
Philosophy:
Justice and the Good Life: Philosophical Perspectives
Ethics for Professional Life (Can also count as an elective, but not as both)
Applied Ethics: select one of the following:3
Philosophy:
Science, Technology, and Ethics (STE) (Can also count as an elective, but not as both)
Philosophy or Religious Studies
Environmental Ethics (Can also count as an elective, but not as both)
Good Sex: The Ethics of Human Sexuality (Can also count as an elective, but not as both.)
Bio-Medical Ethics (Can also count as an elective, but not as both)
Management:
Ethics, Responsible AI, and Business (Can also count as an elective, but not as both) *
Electives: select one of the following:3
Business:
Legal and Social Environment of Business
Communications:
Ethics in Communication
Freedom of Speech
Economics
Economics of Social Issues
History:
Conflict and Justice in History: (Topic)
U.S. Environmental History
United States Women's History
Philosophy:
Political Philosophy
Character, Wisdom, and Mind: Philosophical Perspectives
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and Technology
Philosophy or Religious Studies:
Perspectives on Death and Dying
Political Science:
Classical Political Theory
Modern Political Theory
Power: Political Theories & Applications
Psychology:
Psychology of Gender *
Social Psychology *
Public Health
Introduction to Public Health
Sociology:
Ethics in Crime, Law and Justice *
Special Education:
Interdisciplinary Study of Disability
Technology:
Introduction to Sustainability
Total Hours15
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 *These courses have additional prerequisites as follows:

MGMT 3974/5974 has a prerequisite of MGMT 3100 or 3 hours in Philosophy (PHIL XXXX) or 3 hours in Religious Studies (RELS XXXX); junior standing.

PSYCH 2201 has a prerequisite of PSYCH 1001.

PSYCH 2203 has a prerequisite of PSYCH 1001.

CRIM 3314 has a prerequisite of SOC 1000CRIM 2022.