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Ethics Minor
The Ethics Minor provides students a unique opportunity for in-depth exploration of questions of meaning, value, responsibility, and justice from a variety of theoretical, practical, historical, and methodological points of view.

An Ethics Minor makes an excellent addition to many humanities, social sciences, and professional majors. Students explore particular issues such as children's rights, human cloning, ecological justice, business ethics, and political oppression, as well as larger questions such as the nature of evil, the meaning of the good, and the role in moral life of religion.

Minor Requirements
Students complete 18 credits chosen from a range of courses related to ethics,at least 12 of which must come from within the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Department course options are listed below.

Courses outside Philosophy and Religion must have significant ethical content and be approved by Departmental faculty. Such courses may be found in Sociology, Criminal Justice, Psychology, Business, and a variety of other programs .

Course Options
The following courses are automatically approved for the Ethics Minor:  

Philosophy

730:226  Ethics
730:260  Ethics and Business
730:315  Contemporary Moral Issues
730:319  Modern Social and Political Philosophy
730:320  Philosophy of Law
730:333  Evil
730:349  Biomedical Ethics
730:361  Philosophy of Art

Religion

840:332  Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
840:333  Evil
840:335  Comparative Religious Ethics
840:340  Family Ethics
840:349  Biomedical Ethics


Further Information

For further information contact Dr. John Wall, at johnwall@camden.rutgers.edu


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