PHIL 230 Contemporary Moral Problems (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
Provides students with an introduction to ethical theories and their application to moral issues. Topics may include: privacy rights capital punishment, animal rights, environmental issues, and euthanasia.
Course Content
A. Definition of ethics
B. Overview of traditional and contemporary moral theories: utilitarianism, rights theory, virtue ethics and others
C. Current moral issue for critical analysis may include: animal rights, cloning, the environment and sustainability, abortion, euthanasia, privacy rights, war, torture, globalization, marriage and sexuality, pornography, capital punishment, drug legalization and others.
Student Outcomes
1. Use ethical theory to discuss and attempt to resolve moral problems.
2. Test traditional and contemporary philosophical theories by applying them to the moral issues presented in class.
3. Assess which of these theories are better able to address the various moral issues.
4. Analyze and examine the factual claims that help to define particular moral problems.
5. Criticize and/or support the claims presented on both sides of an issue.
6. Judge the strength/weakness, validity or invalidity of the arguments presented.
7. Create arguments and develop counterarguments for/against the moral issues presented in class.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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