Courses in Ethics
UNC Courses in Ethics
The Parr Center has compiled the following list of UNC courses which foster student reflection on ethics and ethical problems. Any course from this list can be counted toward the academic course requirement for the Parr Center Ethics Scholar Program.
| Course Number | Course Name | Course Description | General Education Attributes |
|---|---|---|---|
| *BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (BUSI) 404 | Business Ethics | An examination of ethical issues that affect business. *One-credit hour course. Must be combined with additional course to satisfy Parr Center Ethics Scholar Program requirement. | |
| AMERICAN STUDIES (AMST) 220 | On the Question of the Animal: Contemporary Animal Studies | This course is an introduction to "animal studies," through animal rights, animal welfare, food studies, and the human/animal distinction in philosophical inquiry. We will read work from dog and horse trainers, and explore the history of the American racetrack. This course builds a moral and ethical reasoning skill set. | PH, NA |
| AMST 225 | Comedy and Ethics | This course explores the historical, sociocultural, and legal significance of 20th- and 21st-century comedy in the United States. We will consider comedy as public voice; examine how humor constructs and disrupts American identities; and discuss the ethics of the creative process, performance, and reception. | PH, NA |
| AMST 291 | Ethics and American Studies | An interdisciplinary seminar in American studies addressing ethical issues in the United States. | PH, NA |
| AMST 351 | Global Waters, American Impacts, and Critical Connections | Water is a vital element for life, food, energy, and transportation. Nations are connected and separated by water through borders and trade. This seminar will examine key impacts on American port cities with respect to water: global infrastructure, foodsheds, health, and diseases. | PH, CI, GL |
| ANTH 539 | Environmental Justice | Course examining issues of race, poverty, and equity in the environmental movement. Cases include the siting of toxic incinerators in predominantly people-of-color communities to resource exploitation on indigenous lands. | SS, EE, US |
| ANTHROPOLOGY (ANTH) 146 | The Nature of Moral Consciousness: A course in General Anthropology | An introductory course in general anthropology focusing on the development of moral consciousness. Western and non-Western patterns of thought and culture are compared and contrasted. The course has a strongly philosophical orientation. | PH |
| ASIAN STUDIES (ASIA) 482 | Sex, Gender, and Religion in South Asia | This seminar draws on feminist and philosophical theory, including the works of Plato, Butler, and Foucualt, as well as postcolonial theory, to explore the categories of sex and gender in South Asian religions. We also analyze the moral cultivation of the self in relation to gender identity in South Asia. | PH, BN |
| BUSI 463(H) | Business and the Environment | This course explores the intersection of business/economic growth and the major sustainability issues affecting the environment and societal well-being and raises questions about business ethics and the moral responsibility of business leaders, consumers, and citizens. Previously offered as ENEC 306. | PH, CI |
| CHINESE (CHIN) 463 | Narrative Ethics in Modern China | By exploring intersections of the narrative and the normative, this course considers relations between text, ethics, and everyday life in 20th-century China by reading texts on aesthetics. | PH, BN |
| COMM 470 | Political Communication and the Public Sphere | A course covering the relationship between communication and political processes and institutions. Topics include media coverage and portrayal of political institutions, elections, actors, and media influence on political beliefs. | PH, NA |
| COMM 499 | The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication | The "dark side" of communication is a metaphor describing the study of disruptive, dysfunctional, distorted, distressing, and destructive aspects of communication. This course explores humanity's darker side that allows us to reject, exclude, stigmatize, exploit, objectify, misguide, lie, and cheat. The course examines various theoretical perspectives and applies them to everyday problems in interpersonal encounters. A sample of topics discussed include: prejudice, stigma, marginalization, bullying, ostracism, resistance, manipulation, conformity, deceit, gossip, rumors, infidelity, and revenge. | SS, CI, EE |
| COMMUNICATIONS (COMM) 450 | Media and Popular Culture | Prerequisite, COMM 140. Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Examination of communication processes and cultural significance of film, television, and other electronic media. | PH |
| COMP 388 | Advanced Cyberculture Studies | Prerequisite, COMP 380; a grade of C or better is required; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Explores Internet history and cyberphilosophy; online identify construction, community, communication, creativity; bodies/cyborgs; intelligence and AI. Students perform independent research into and analyze virtual worlds, social media, anonymous bulletin boards, mobile media, and more, and create digital art and literature. Seminar-style; students collaborate on designing and leading class. | PH |
| COMPUTER SCIENCES (COMP) 380(H) | Introduction to Digital Culture | An introduction to digital technology and computer science issues in society. Topics may include Internet history, privacy, security, usability, graphics, games, computers in the media, development, economics, social media, AI, IP, computer and Internet ethics, global ethics, current legal issues, etc. | PH |
| ECONOMICS (ECON) 384 | Gateway to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics | One course in economics strongly recommended. This interdisciplinary gateway course provides an introduction to subjects and quantitative techniques used to analyze problems in philosophy, political science, and economics. | PH |
| EDUC 526 | Ethics and Education: from Global Problems to Classroom Dilemmas | Among the topics examined are ethical implications of democratic schooling for a democratic society, educators as moral agents, and education as an institution with incumbent responsibilities. Students explore the explicit and implied ethics of education and schooling as they relate to policy makers, educators, and citizens concerned about social justice. | PH, CI |
| EDUCATION (EDUC) 508 | Equity, Leadership, and You | This course was developed to confront and address questions of global cultural competence and self-critique. Culturally competent leaders work to understand their own biases and patterns of discrimination. | SS, GL |
| ENEC 462(H) | Business and the Environment | This course explores the intersection of business/economic growth and the major sustainability issues affecting the environment and societal well-being and raises questions about business ethics and the moral responsibility of business leaders, consumers, and citizens. Previously offered as ENEC 306. | PH, CI |
| ENGLISH (ENGL) 271 | Mixed-Race America: Race in Contemporary American Literature and Culture | This service-learning course is partnered with a charter school, and together UNC-Chapel Hill and high school students will explore issues of race in American literature and culture. | LA, EE, US |
| ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY (ENEC) 368 | Living Things, Wilderness, and Ecosystems: An Introduction to Environmental Ethics | The meaning of environmental values and their relation to other values; the ethical status of animals, species, wilderness, and ecosystems; the built environment; environmental justice; ecofeminism; obligations to future generations. | PH, GL |
| FRENCH (FREN) 515 | Social Networks: Technology and Community in Modern France | Prerequisites, FREN 300 and one additional course above FREN 330; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. Exploration of the interaction between technology and sociability in 19th- through 21st-century French literature, with an emphasis on questions of modernization, industrialization, colonization, globalization, subjectivity, and ethics. Taught in French. | PH, NA |
| GERM 286 | (Un)Welcomed Guests? German Reflections on Exile and Immigration | This course introduces students to philosophical, literary, and film texts engaging with the ethics of migration. How might the writings by and depictions of refugees throughout German history resonate with the current crisis? The course includes a service learning component, so that students gain experience working with local refugees and are able to use their practical experience to reflect on the theoretical discussions in class. Readings and discussions in English. | PH, EE, GL |
| GERMAN (GERM) 283 | Freedom, Terror, and Identity: Modern Philosophy from Kant to Arendt | This course investigates how philosophical thought motivates, inspires, and generates forms of agency and identity against cultural tendencies that limit or erode freedom. Readings, lecture, and discussion in English. | PH, NA |
| HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT (HPM) 310 | Introduction to Law and Ethics in Health Management | Prerequisite, HPM 350. An introduction to health law and ethics for health administration undergraduate seniors. | |
| HISTORY (HIST) 510(H) | Human Rights in the Modern World | This course looks at the international history of human rights from the Enlightenment to the present and considers how human rights ideas first emerged, how they evolved, and how they became so influential. Honors version available. | HS, GL |
| HPM 571 | Health and Human Rights | Course focuses on rights-based approaches to health, applying a human rights perspective to selected public health policies, programs, and interventions. Students will apply a formalistic human rights framework to critical public health issues, exploring human rights as both a safeguard against harm and a catalyst for health promotion. | PH, GL |
| INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE (INLS) 384 | Information and Computer Ethics | Prerequisite, INLS 201. Overview of ethical reasoning, followed by examination of ethical issues relevant to information science, including access to information and technology, societal impacts of technology, information privacy, surveillance and security, intellectual property, and professional ethics. | PH, CI |
| ITALIAN (ITAL) 359 | Medieval Frauds: Fake News, Counterfeits, and Forgeries | This course examines medieval Italians' preoccupation with fraud through literary and historical texts: its philosophical definition and taxonomy, its perceived threat to moral and social order, the hermeneutics of fraud detection, and strategies for bearing the burden of proof. | PH, WB |
| JEWISH STUDIES (JWST) 420 | Post-Holocaust Ethics and Theology | This course examines the challenges posed to ethics and theology by the Holocaust. We will address philosophical and moral issues such as the problem of evil, divine omniscience, omnipotence, suffering, theodicy, representation, testimony, and an ethics of memory. | PH, GL |
| MEDIA AND JOURNALISM (MEJO) 141 | Media Ethics | Explore what constitutes ethical practices, what interferes with ethical practices, and what emerging ethical issues may challenge the newest generation of professional communicators. Cases involve print, broadcast, and Internet news media; photojournalism; graphic design; public relations; and advertising. | PH |
| MEJO 476 | Ethical Issues and Sports Communication | Permission of the instructor. Ethical dilemmas and decisions in the commercialization and coverage of sports, including the influence of television, pressure to change traditions and standards for monetary reasons, and negative influences on athletes. | |
| NAVAL SCIENCE (NAVS) 402 | Naval Leadership and Ethics | Capstone leadership course in NROTC curriculum, emphasizing leadership skills and their ethical implications for the competent commissioned officer in areas of human resources and material management. | PH |
| NURS 302 | Research, Ethics, and Innovation | This course focuses on research, ethics, and health innovations as a basis for scientific inquiry to address problems that require solutions. | |
| NURS 687 | Ethical Issues in Nursing | Examination and discussion of major ethical issues arising in the professional practice of nursing in the context of systematic consideration of the nature of ethical choice. | |
| NUTRITION (NUTR) 245 | Sustainable Local Food Systems: Intersection of Local Foods and Public Health | Examines the intersection of local foods and public health with respect to nutrition and environmental, economic, and community issues. Students explore impacts and potential solutions of the increasingly industrialized and centralized food system, while assisting community partners to increase opportunities for farmers, local food marketers, distributors, and entrepreneurs. | EE |
| PEACE, WAR, AND DEFENSE (PWAD) 272 | The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense | An analysis of ethical issues that arise in peace, war, and defense, e.g., the legitimacy of states, just war theory, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction. | PH, NA, GL |
| PHIL 163(H) | Practical Ethics: Moral Reasoning and How We Live | Topics may include war, medical ethics, media ethics, sexual ethics, business ethics, racism, sexism, capital punishment, and the environment. | PH |
| PHIL 164 | Morality and Business | An examination of business ethics and the types of ethical dilemmas people may face in business practices. | PH |
| PHIL 165(H) | Bioethics | An examination of ethical issues in the life sciences and technologies, medicine, public health, and/or human interaction with nonhuman animals or the living environment. | PH |
| PHIL 170(H) | Liberty, Rights, and Responsibilities: Introduction to Social Ethics and Political Thought | An examination of major issues in political philosophy, e.g., liberty, individual rights, social responsibility, legal authority, civil authority, civil disobedience. Readings include classical and contemporary writings. | PH |
| PHIL 180 | Philosophy of Humor | A course on philosophical issues related to laughter and humor. Historical and contemporary philosophical theories of humor; connections between traditional issues in aesthetics and humor; moral questions about humor, such as what is involved in a joke being racist/sexist/homophobic; and connections between jokes and various epistemological fallacies. | PH |
| PHIL 185(H) | Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art | The nature of art and artworks and their aesthetic appraisal. | PH |
| PHIL 261 | Ethics in Action | Required preparation, one previous PHIL ethics course. Permission of the instructor. Ethics Bowl provides a unique experiential opportunity for students to apply theory to practical global issues. Students will prepare cases to present locally and at Ethics Bowl competition. | PH, CI, EE |
| PHIL 265 | Ethics, Politics and Technology | This course addresses a number of ethical and political issues that arise as a result of advancing technologies; it will also begin by briefly reviewing some basics of ethics and political philosophy. | |
| PHIL 266(H) | Not All Fun and Games: Ethics of Sports | An analysis of the moral significance of sports, the nature of sport and competition, and issues such as racism, gender equity, violence, and performance-enhancing drugs. | PH |
| PHIL 272 | The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense | An analysis of ethical issues that arise in peace, war, and defense, e.g., the legitimacy of states, just war theory, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction. | PH, NA, GL |
| PHIL 273 | Justice, Rights, and the Common Good: Philosophical Perspectives on Social and Economic Issues | This course will focus on justice and the common good, applying theoretical justifications to contemporary social and economic issues. Readings will include classical and contemporary literature on the nature of justice and rights. | PH |
| PHIL 274(H) | Race, Racism, and Social Justice: African-American Political Philosophy | Race, identity, discrimination, multiculturalism, affirmative action, and slave reparations in the writings of Walker, Delany, Douglass, Cooper, DuBois, King, and Malcolm X. | PH, US |
| PHIL 275(H) | Moral and Philosophical Issues of Gender in Society | A survey of feminist perspectives on topics such as the meaning of oppression, sexism and racism, sex roles and stereotypes, ideals of female beauty, women in the workplace, pornography, rape. | PH, US |
| PHIL 280(H) | Morality, Law, and Justice: Issues in Legal Philosophy | Explores issues in legal philosophy such as, What is law? Does it serve justice or undermine it? Can punishment be justified? When is a person responsible? | PH |
| PHIL 282 | Human Rights: Philosophical Interrogations | The philosophy of human rights addresses questions about the existence, content, nature, universality, justification, and legal status of human rights.The strong claims made on behalf of human rights frequently provoke skeptical doubts and countering philosophical defenses. These will be addressed through classical and contemporary history of philosophy. | PH |
| PHIL 285 | Moral and Philosophical Issues in Education | A critical examination of the moral and philosophical issues in education: What does it mean to be well educated? What is a liberal education? | PH, CI |
| PHIL 360(H) | Major Developments in Ethics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives | Prerequisite, one previous PHIL course. PHIL 160 recommended. Major developments in the history of moral philosophy, from Plato to Nietzsche. | PH |
| PHIL 362(H) | Contemporary Ethical Theory | Prerequisite, one previous PHIL course. Using 20th- and 21st-century texts, this course explores some general questions about morality in depth. For example, Is there moral truth? Are any moral rules absolute? Why be moral? | PH |
| PHIL 364 | Ethics and Economics | Recommended preparation, at least one course in ethics (PHIL 160, 163, or 170) or one course in economics. Issues at the intersection of ethics and economics, including value; the relation between values and preferences; rationality; the relevance to economics of rights, justice, and the value of human life. | PH |
| PHIL 368 | Living Things, Wilderness, and Ecosystems: An Introduction to Environmental Ethics | The meaning of environmental values and their relation to other values; the ethical status of animals, species, wilderness, and ecosystems; the built environment; environmental justice; ecofeminism; obligations to future generations. | PH, GL |
| PHIL 370 | Authority, Freedom, and Rights: Advanced Political Philosophy | Prerequisite, one previous PHIL course. Advanced discussion of competing philosophical approaches to questions of justice, authority, freedom, rights, and the like, including libertarianism, liberalism, communitarianism, Marxism, and feminism. | PH, NA |
| PHIL 381(H) | Philosophy and Film | Prerequisite, one previous PHIL course. An examination of how philosophical issues are explored in the medium of film. | PH |
| PHIL 384 | Gateway to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics | One course in economics strongly recommended. This interdisciplinary gateway course provides an introduction to subjects and quantitative techniques used to analyze problems in philosophy, political science, and economics. | PH |
| PHIL 460 | History of Moral Philosophy | Prerequisite, Two courses in philosophy other than PHIL 155, including PHIL 360, strongly recommended. Examination of classic texts of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Butler, Hume, Kant, and Mill. Selections may vary from year to year. | PH |
| PHIL 462 | Contemporary Moral Philosophy | Prerequisite, two courses in philosophy other than PHIL 155, including PHIL 362. Advanced discussion of moral issues such as fact and value, reason and morality, the nature of morality. | PH |
| PHIL 463 | Contemporary Moral and Social Problems | Two courses in philosophy other than PHIL 155 strongly recommended. A detailed examination of one or more of the following contemporary issues: environmental ethics, animal rights, abortion, euthanasia, pornography, racism, sexism, public versus private morality. | |
| PHIL 465 | Justice in Health Care | One course in philosophy strongly recommended. Medical students welcome. The course will focus on the question of how scarce health care resources ought to be distributed in order to meet the demands of justice. | |
| PHIL 468 | Risk and Society | Prerequisite, PHIL 155. One additional course in philosophy strongly recommended. The course examines attitudes toward risk and how they affect our preferences for different public policies in the areas of environmental protection, technology regulation, and workplace and product safety. | |
| PHIL 470 | Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Rousseau | Two courses in philosophy other than PHIL 155, including PHIL 170 or 370, strongly recommended. Explores the foundations of justice and authority in the idea of contract or covenant, the nature of law, rights, liberty, and democracy in the work of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau. | PH |
| PHIL 471 | Hegel, Marx, and the Philosophical Critique of Society | An examination of central issues in social and political philosophy as they figure in the work of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and others. | |
| PHIL 473 | American Political Philosophy | One course in philosophy other than PHIL 155 strongly recommended. Juniors and seniors only. The issue of unity and diversity in America is analyzed through the writings of Jefferson, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, Calhoun, MacKinnon, DuBois, and Rawls. | US |
| PHIL 474 | Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy | Prerequisite, PHIL 170. This course traces the emergence and development of central themes of modern political philosophy from the 13th through the 17th century. | PH |
| PHIL 475 | Philosophical Issues in Gender, Race, and Class | Prerequisite, PHIL 275 or WGST 101. Examines in greater depth and complexity one or more of the issues addressed in PHIL 275, investigating issues of gender, race, and class within the dominant theories of philosophy. | US |
| PHIL 476 | Recent Developments in Political Philosophy | Two courses in philosophy other than PHIL 155, including PHIL 370, strongly recommended. Investigation of major contemporary contributors (Rawls, Nozick, Dworkin, Cohen, Waldron, Arrow) to philosophical debate concerning justice, equality, liberty, democracy, public reason, or rights versus community. | PH |
| PHIL 480 | Philosophy of Law | An exploration of whether and under what conditions the state has the right to control crime by punishment of past crimes and preventive detention to prevent future crimes. | PH |
| PHIL 482 | Philosophy and Literature | Philosophical readings of literary texts, including novels, plays, and poems. | |
| PHIl 485 | Philosophy of Art | Competing theories of art and art criticism. The relationship between art and emotional expression, the formal character of art, and standards of taste. | |
| PHILOSOPHY (PHIL) 160(H) | Virtue, Value, and Happiness: An Introduction to Moral Theory | Exploration of different philosophical perspectives about right and wrong, personal character, justice, moral reasoning, and moral conflicts. Readings drawn from classic or contemporary sources. Critical discussion emphasized. | PH |
| PLCY 364 | Ethics and Economics | Recommended preparation, at least one course in ethics (PHIL 160, 163, or 170) or one course in economics. Issues at the intersection of ethics and economics, including value; the relation between values and preferences; rationality; the relevance to economics of rights, justice, and the value of human life. | PH |
| PLCY 415 | Advocacy for Policy Change | Prerequisite, PLCY 210 or 220. This experiential learning course will begin by exploring a number of policy domains where existing laws do not seem to produce positive outcomes for average citizens and state residents. We will then investigate potential ways to address the issue, and pursue a line of advocacy for a particular policy issue. Students will interact with state legislators and their aides as well as non-governmental organizations in order to uncover and employ strategies for policy advocacy. | EE |
| PLCY 570 | Health and Human Rights | Course focuses on rights-based approaches to health, applying a human rights perspective to selected public health policies, programs, and interventions. Students will apply a formalistic human rights framework to critical public health issues, exploring human rights as both a safeguard against harm and a catalyst for health promotion. | PH, GL |
| POLI 272 | The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense | An analysis of ethical issues that arise in peace, war, and defense, e.g., the legitimacy of states, just war theory, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction. | PH, NA, GL |
| POLI 276 | Everyday Political Theory: Seeing Like a Citizen (Major Issues in Political Theory) | You have more agency than you think...Your favorite coffee shop. Your living situation. Your Instagram feed and your favorite subreddit. The job that you love (or hate). The congregation down the street. The library. The classroom. The quiet trail. What do all these things have in common? They are all potential arenas for politics: shared meaning and action. In this course you will learn about the practical and normative aspects of self-governance: solving problems together (or apart), goods, values, conflict, freedom, equality, and justice...all in the places where you actually spend much of your life. Political theory is often taught as if we will one day set up our own society out of nothing. Instead, we are mid-stream, in a society which is partially given, partially of our making. This course assumes you will have a job, use social media, frequent a coffee shop, spend time with (or help run) an organization, or coordinate with neighbors. It also assumes you will engage was voters or organizers, but likely not as lawmakers. If you want a better understanding of your shared life with others, your civic responsibilities to each other, take this class. Course readings include a mix of political theory, economic thought, and ethnographic research. All majors welcome (e.g. Poli Sci, Phil, Bus, Soci, etc). Potential to present original research to members of the Chapel Hill and wider Triangle community. | PH, NA |
| POLI 350 | Peace Science Research | Prerequisite, POLI 150. This Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) introduces students to the practice of quantitative research on peace, conflict, and conflict resolution. Students work in teams to develop original research projects that answer policy-relevant questions in the field of peace science. | SS, EE |
| POLI 384 | Gateway to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics | One course in economics strongly recommended. This interdisciplinary gateway course provides an introduction to subjects and quantitative techniques used to analyze problems in philosophy, political science, and economics. | PH |
| POLI 404 | Race, Immigration, and Urban Politics | Prerequisite, POLI 100. This course provides a survey of the literature on race, immigration, and urban politics in the contemporary United States. The goal is to understand the complex relationship between racial/ethnic identity and local political processes. Students explore topics such as police brutality, immigration, the education system, and coalition politics. | SS, EE, US |
| POLITICAL SCIENCE (POLI) 206 | Race and the Right to Vote in the United States | This course surveys scholarly literature on electoral institutions, racial politics, and access to the ballot in the United States. In 30 hours of community service with partner organizations, students produce a publicly available research project using oral histories, mapping, scholarly research, and podcasts. | SS, EE, US |
| PUBLIC POLICY (PLCY) 340(H) | Justice in Public Policy | This seminar explores arguments about moral issues in public policy. Students examine both the means used to implement policies and policy ends through discussions of case studies of policy choice. | PH |
| PWAD 363 | Ethics in Intelligence and National Security | An exploration of the unique ethical and moral challenges that intelligence and national security present for policymakers, intelligence professionals, and citizens. Examples are drawn from a variety of places and times throughout history, with an emphasis on U.S. examples. | |
| RELI 135 | Technology, the Self, and Ethical Problems | Problems in the study of ethics in the new worlds of information technology. | PH |
| RELI 226 | Human Animals in Religion and Ethics | This course investigates the figure of the human animal in religion and philosophy. What kind of animal is the human, and what separates humans from animals? We will consider how attending to distinctions between humans and animals can highlight varying ideological and religious viewpoints. | PH, GL |
| RELI 315(H) | Religious Frauds: Lies, Forgeries, and Fake News | This course explores the problem of religious fraud-and more specifically, "pious fraud"-drawing case studies from Christian history. Although Christianity espouses a high moral code, some Christians have used deception to advance their beliefs and agendas: forging documents, inventing stories, and fabricating artifacts. Others have been suspected of these same activities. Throughout the semester, students wade through the thorny moral/ethical issues presented by the practice of pious fraud and debate possible cases. | PH, WB |
| RELI 420(H) | Post-Holocaust Ethics and Theology | This course examines the challenges posed to ethics and theology by the Holocaust. We will address philosophical and moral issues such as the problem of evil, divine omniscience, omnipotence, suffering, theodicy, representation, testimony, and an ethics of memory. | PH, GL |
| RELI 430 | Dimensions of Evil | This course explores the meaning of evil. By investigating the moral dimensions of evil, its social uses, its figuration in cross-cultural religious texts, theology, folklore, and political imaginaries, this course develops a critical framework for understanding the diverse manifestations and varied cultural renderings of evil in the modern world. Previously offered as RELI 526. | PH, GL |
| RELI 482 | Sex, Gender, and Religion in South Asia | This seminar draws on feminist and philosophical theory, including the works of Plato, Butler, and Foucault, as well as postcolonial theory, to explore the categories of sex and gender in South Asian religions. We also analyze the moral cultivation of the self in relation to gender identity in South Asia. | PH, BN |
| RELIGIOUS STUDIES (RELI) 134(H) | Introduction to Religious Ethics | A study of the nature, methods, and aims of ethics as seen in exemplary persons and actions with emphasis on religious and social context and contemporary problems. | PH |
| SOCI 470 | Human Rights | Human rights are inherent in the advance of peace, security, prosperity, and social equity. They are shared by the global community, yet require local embedding. Course includes a service-learning component. | EE |
| SOCIOLOGY (SOCI) 273, 274 | Social and Economic Justice | Covers theory and practice of social and economic justice, including analyses of racial, gender, sexual, class, national, and other forms of justice, the history of influential movements for justice, and strategies of contemporary struggles. This course has a 30-hour service-learning component. Students may not receive credit for both SOCI 273 and SOCI 274. | PH, EE |
| WGST 475 | Philosophical Issues in Gender, Race, and Class | Prerequisite, PHIL 275 or WGST 101. Examines in greater depth and complexity one or more of the issues addressed in PHIL 275, investigating issues of gender, race, and class within the dominant theories of philosophy. | US |
| WGST 482 | Sex, Gender, and Religion in South Asia | This seminar draws on feminist and philosophical theory, including the works of Plato, Butler, and Foucault, as well as postcolonial theory, to explore the categories of sex and gender in South Asian religions. We also analyze the moral cultivation of the self in relation to gender identity in South Asia. | PH, BN |
| WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES (WGST) 275(H) | Moral and Philosophical Issues of Gender in Society | A survey of feminist perspectives on topics such as the meaning of oppression, sexism and racism, sex roles and stereotypes, ideals of female beauty, women in the workplace, pornography, rape. | PH, US |
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