• Develop moral perception, including capacity to identify and discern between an ethical question, a scientific question, a political question, an aesthetic question, and a legal question.
• Cultivate the moral and empathic imagination, as reflected in abilities to understand an issue from another person's perspective.
• Develop skills in moral reasoning and deliberation, especially in the capacity to apply ethical principles in a moral deliberation process to concrete issues of moral choice.
• Cultivate personal moral responsibility, expressed through moral foundations questionnaire, and development of personal case studies of moral choices.
• Sensitivity to moral ambiguity and tolerance for different opinions, as reflected through civility in discourse and philosophical charity.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Philosophy Requirements
PHL 205	*ETHICS	4
Select 12 credits from the following:		12
PHL 150	*GREAT IDEAS IN PHILOSOPHY
PHL 280	*ETHICS OF DIVERSITY
PHL 325	*SCIENTIFIC REASONING
PHL 342	CONTEMPORARY ETHICS
PHL 390	MORAL THEORIES
PHL 405	READING AND CONFERENCE
PHL 417	FEMINIST PHILOSOPHIES
PHL 440	*ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
PHL 443	*WORLD VIEWS AND ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES
PHL 444	*BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
PHL 450	TOPICS
PHL 499	TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY (with departmental approval)
Electives
Select one of the following: 1,2		12
Ethics and scientific inquiry
Ethics and the environment
Ethics, health and medicine
Total Credits		28

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 Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)

1

 Three concentrations of courses to achieve the 12 elective credits for the Applied Ethics certificate have already been established, but creating an individualized program is possible

2

 The Applied Ethics Certificate Coordinator will assist students in course selection from a list available in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion