2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Sep 29, 2024  
2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog
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PHI 320 - Environmental Ethics

A consideration of ethical issues as they arise in human interaction with the environment. Topics will include environmental racism, "speciesism," the Gaia hypothesis and the impact of population growth on ecology. Fulfills: GE 12; LASR; WI. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Summarize the major ethical concepts and theories used in environmental ethics by an evaluation of the relevant texts.
  2. Apply these concepts and theories to areas of contemporary concern by the construction of a reasoned philosophical argument.
  3. Identify the ethical dimensions of environmental ethics through critical reflection.



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