GC 470 - Environmental Ethics

Offered Fall: No Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: Contact department for information.

4 Credits
Hours (Lecture - Discussion - Lab): 4-0-0
Prerequisites: GC 101 and GC 205.

This course investigates the philosophical discipline of environmental ethics. Students will examine the moral relationship of humans to the environment and its non-human contents in the context of social ecology, deep ecology and ecofeminist paradigms. They will explore the ethics of biodiversity loss, resource use, population, climate change and sustainability. Students will develop their own individual ethical perspective and understanding of the environment to become actors in the resolution of environmental and ecological controversies.

Notes: Field work may be required. Contact instructor for more information.