RELI235

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Environmental Ethics

Subject Code

RELI

Course Number

235

Department(s)

Course Title

Environmental Ethics

Course Description

This course combines religious, Philosophical and ecological thought as a means of addressing questions about appropriate ethical responses, actions and attitudes in our relationship with our ecosystems. It covers current utilitarian, deontological, and virtue based religious moral thought to focus on questions about the morality of economic and built-environment infrastructures and resultant cultural sea-shifts that need to take place to enable us to embody an ethical relationship with the environment. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. 4 SH. CC: Ethics, Interdisciplinary.

Course Types

Standard (STAND), Ethics (ETHCS), Interdisciplinary (DISCP), Public Policy Major (PPOL)

Semester Hours

4