RELG 3305 Ethics

An introductory study of the history, principles, and current state of ethical thought with special focus on selected contemporary problems.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

PHIL 3305

Prerequisite

Sophomore standing or permission of instructor.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Understand something about the discipline of ethics and the important terms, positions, arguments, and people that are part of it.
2. Begin the personal journey away from cocksure, vague, and self-contradictory ways of thinking and acting and toward more tentative, precise, and self-consistent ways of thinking and acting.
3. Learn to apply the skills of independent and critical thinking to ethical issues: i.e., you ought to learn to take a philosophical approach to moral decisions.