PHIL 1724 - Environmental Ethics

3 Credits

This course will focus on helping students develop the ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate moral arguments about the value of nature and our obligations to the natural world and the human and non-human creatures that inhabit it. Topics will include global warming, pollution, animal welfare, anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric views of the value and role of nature, ecofeminism, the moral status of cultural and religious practices that affect the environment, energy and resource policy, conservation and the land ethic, and global and intergenerational justice. The course will include an introduction to basic skills and concepts in ethical theory and applied ethics. 3C/3/0/0

Prerequisite(s): READ 0722 or READ 0724 or EAPP 0900 with a grade of “C” or better, or appropriate assessment score

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) Goal Area(s): Goals 6 and 10