Applied Ethics in Humanities

Statement of the Competency: to think critically about ethical issues. Students who successfully complete the APPLIED ETHICS course in Humanities should be able to:

  • Understand basic ethical concepts and theories necessary for reflecting upon moral beliefs, actions and questions pertaining to personal, professional, local and global issues
  • Situate issues in their social and historical contexts and examine them from an ethical perspective in a reasoned and critical manner
  • Identify conflicts of values, and reflect on the moral disagreements, questions and options that emerge from these conflicts
  • Identify and analyze ethical issues that are pertinent to the student’s program

The APPLIED ETHICS course is designed to provide students with the basic ideas and skills of moral reasoning so that they can identify and analyze various issues, including program related ones, from an ethical perspective. Students become acquainted with a number of ethical theories and learn how to analyze and evaluate ethical arguments.

Please note that not all the courses listed below are offered every term:

Course Number Course Name C - L - H Hrs
345-BXH-DW Applied Ethical Issues with New School  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Applied Ethics  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Applied Ethics: Contemporary Issues  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Between the Self and Other  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Buddhist Ethics  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Cancel Culture  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Classical Approaches to Contemporary Issues  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Culture and Controversy: Ethics in  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Dante and Milton  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Desire  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Ethical Issues  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Ethical Issues in Medicine and Heal  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Ethical Issues in Medicine and Health  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Ethics with the New School  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Ethics: Theory, History and Issues  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Figuring Out What's Best  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW From Cruelty to Forgiveness  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Happily Ever After  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW How Can That Be Legal?  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Human Rights and the Ethics of Global Migrations  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Introduction to Ethics  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Introduction to Moral Philosophy  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Investigating Story Value(s)  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Issues in Bioethics  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Moby Dick and the Buddhist Tradition  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Modern Mythology  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Moral Choices in Literature  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Moral Issues in Law  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Moral Issues in Law (Liberal Arts)  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW My Own Worst Enemy  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Science Fiction and Ethics  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Society and the Other  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Staging the Strange: Disorientation and Ethics in Immersive Performance  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW The Ethics of Joy  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW The Ethics of the Past: Archaeology, Ownership, and the Antiquities Trade  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW The Individual and State  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW The Sorcerer's Feast  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW The Universe on Your Plate  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Theories in Normative and Applied Ethics  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Welcome to the Machine  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Welcome to the Machine: An Introduction to Ethics and Sci-Fi  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-BXH-DW Who Does the Law Serve?  3 - 0 - 3 45 
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Last Modified: February 24, 2015