Ethical issues are important to every human activity, field of study, and profession. The aim of this minor is to provide a background in ethical reasoning that fosters the ability of students to make well-informed ethical choices. It offers a foundation in philosophical ethics while building on these insights in the context of specific issues and concerns that arise in other fields.

Required course
PHIL 205 Introduction to Ethics

One of the following upper level ethics courses
PHIL 321 Contemporary Moral Problems
PHIL 328 Topics in Ethics

Any one of the following courses in normative philosophy
PHIL 328 Topics in Ethics (must be different topic than in category 2)
PHIL 308 Philosophical Periods
POLS/PHIL 330 Introduction to Political Thought
PHIL 400 Interdisciplinary Philosophy
PHIL 402 Philosophy of Law
PHIL 406 Major Philosophers

Any one of the following applied ethics courses
CAT 310 Art Therapy Ethics
CJ/POLS 442 Liberty and Law
COMM 410 Communications Law and Ethics (4 hour course)
COMM 412 Media Ethics
ENT 350 Entrepreneurship Law and Ethics
GEO 360 Land Use and Community Planning
MGT 410 Sport Management and Ethics
SWK 304 Professional Ethics

Any one of the following interdisciplinary electives
ENG 315 Multicultural Studies in Literature
ENG 492 World Literature II
REL 250 Religions of the World
SOC 350 Social Stratification