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Sep 07, 2024
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PHIL 146 - Environmental Ethics 5 Credits Environmental Ethics introduces students to the moral relations between human beings and their natural environment. Topics for Environmental Ethics may include animal rights, population and consumption, pollution, climate change, economics and the environment, and sustainability.
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Quarters Typically Offered
Spring Day
Designed to Serve Students needing AA degree credit; students needing AA HUM distribution credit; students with an interest in ethics, ecology, or current affairs; students with an interest in environmental issues; general students. Active Date 2014-09-02
Grading System Decimal Grade Class Limit 38 Contact Hours: Lecture 55 Lab 0 Worksite 0 Clinical 0 Other 0 Total Contact Hours 55 Degree Distributions: AA - Diversity & Globalism
- Humanities Area I
Course Outline 1. Environmental Ethics in traditional religions such as Indigenous Religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism
2. Perspectives on the Environment and Animals found in Traditional Western Philosophical Traditions such as Descartes, Kant, and Bentham
3. Biocentric perspectives and Ecocentric perspectives
4. Lifeboat ethics
5. Population issues
6. Food and Water
7. Trash and Waste
8. Sustainability
9. Climate Change
10. Environmental Racism
Student Learning Outcomes Critically examine issues and arguments in environmental ethics
Communicate effectively about issues and arguments in environmental ethics
Identify and explain central concepts relevant to environmental ethics
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