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Minor

Minor in Ethics

Pennsylvania State University Liberal Arts 82 courses

About This Program

This interdisciplinary minor, housed in the Department of Philosophy, is designed to provide students with training in ethical reasoning, frameworks, and methods, as well as offer the opportunity to work in various fields of applied ethics. In addition to the requirements for the student's major department the minor consists of 18 credits selected from a wide range of disciplines (e.g., philosophy, communication, engineering, law, psychology, sociology, anthropology, public policy, international studies, and environmental studies). Courses deal with ethics from various perspectives, for example research ethics, media ethics, environmental ethics, bioethics, and business ethics.

Degree Requirements

Additional Courses

Code Course Title Credits
PHIL 2 Society and Politics 3
PHIL 3 Ethical Life 3
PHIL 8 Gender Matters 3
PHIL 9 Race, Racism, and Diversity 3
PHIL 14 Love and Sex 3
PHIL 103 Ethics 3
PHIL 103W Ethics 3
PHIL 105 Philosophy of Law 3
PHIL 106 Business Ethics 3
PHIL 108 Social and Political Philosophy 3
PHIL 108W Social and Political Philosophy 3
PHIL 115 Philosophy and Education 3
PHIL 118 Environmental Philosophy 3
PHIL 119 Ethical Leadership 3
PHIL 120N Knowing Right from Wrong 3
PHIL 123 Media Ethics 3
PHIL 132 Bioethics 3
PHIL 133N Ethics of Climate Change 3
PHIL 134 Food, Values, and Health 3
PHIL 135 Ethics in Jewish Tradition and Thought 3
PHIL 242N Happiness and Well-Being 3
PHIL 403 Seminar in Environmental Ethics 3
PHIL 405 Seminar in Philosophy of Law 3
PHIL 407 Seminar in Philosophy of Technology 3
PHIL 408W Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy 3
PHIL 418 Seminar in Ethical Theory 3
PHIL 418W Seminar in Ethical Theory 3
PHIL 432 Medical and Health Care Ethics 3
PHIL 460 African American Philosophy 3
PHIL 478 Ethics After the Holocaust 3
AFAM 103 Racism and Sexism 3
AFAM 409 Racial and Ethnic Inequality in America 3
AG 160 Introduction into Ethics and Issues in Agriculture 3
ANTH 45N Cultural Diversity: A Global Perspective 3
APLNG 310 Language Rights, Policy, and Planning 3
AYFCE 438 Living in an Increasingly Diverse Society 1-3
ASIA 418 Confucius and the Great Books of China 3
BA 242 Social and Ethical Environment of Business 2
BA 243 Social, Legal, and Ethical Environment of Business 4
BA 342 Socially Responsible, Sustainable and Ethical Business Practice 3
BBH 301W Values and Ethics in Biobehavioral Health Research and Practice 3
CED 417 Power, Conflict, and Community Decision Making 3
CMLIT 130 Banned Books: International and Comparative Perspectives 3
CMLIT 143 Human Rights and World Literature 3
CMLIT 455 Ethics, Justice, and Rights in World Literature 3
COMM 205 Gender, Diversity and the Media 3
COMM 222N Social Justice and the Image 3
COMM 409 News Media Ethics 3
COMM 417 Ethics and Regulation in Advertising and Public Relations 3
COMM 458 Media Law and Ethics 3
COMM 486W Telecommunications Ethics 3
CRIMJ 451 Race, Crime, and Justice 3
CRIMJ 465 Ethics in Criminal Justice 3
EDTHP 115A Competing Rights: Issues in American Education 3
EDUC 400 Diversity and Cultural Awareness Practices in the K-12 Classroom 3
ENGL 135 Alternative Voices in American Literature 3
ENGL 234 Sports, Ethics, and Literature 3
ENGL 236N Inequality: Economics, Philosophy, Literature 3
FDSC 444 Arguing about Food 3
FIN 476 Financial Ethics 1
GEOG 433 Geographies of Justice 3
HDFS 108N Art and Science of Human Flourishing 3
HDFS 301 Values and Ethics in Health and Human Development Professions 3
HIST 116 Exploration of Allied Health Professions
JST 409Y Antisemitisms 3
KINES 345 Meaning, Ethics, and Movement 3
KINES 440 Philosophy and Sport 3
MGMT 451W Business, Ethics, and Society
NAVSC 402 Leadership and Ethics
NURS 350 Professional Role Development II: Ethics, Legal and Genomic Issues 2
NURS 458 Ethical Challenges in Healthcare Informatics 3
PLSC 17N Introduction to Political Theory 3
PLSC 430 Selected Works in the History of Political Theory 3
PLSC 431 Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Political Theories 3
PLSC 432 Modern and Contemporary Political Theories 3
PLSC 435 Foundations of American Political Theory 3
PLSC 477 Sex, Race, & Justice: The U.S. Supreme Court and Equality 3
PSYCH 243 Introduction to Well-being and Positive Psychology 3
PSYCH 466 The Psychology of Evil 3
SOC 450 Justice and the Environment 3
WMNST 301N Sexualities, Gender and Power: Feminist Thought and Politics 3
WMNST 400N Debates in Contemporary Feminism 3

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