Ethics
Develop your ethical reasoning skills and better recognize ethical issues in personal, professional, and social contexts with an ethics certificate from UWEC.
Study Ethics and Morality at UWEC
Rooted in fascinating, thought-provoking courses, the ethics certificate will help you learn how to reason coherently, critically, and creatively about ethical issues. Coursework will help you demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of different ethical concepts, theories, and perspectives, and enable you to effectively employ them in a variety of settings.
The ethics certificate is a popular choice for those pursuing a major in philosophy or religious studies, students in pre-professional programs with ethics requirements, and those interested in graduate study and careers in healthcare ethics, legal ethics, or corporate ethics and compliance. It is also a natural complement to the leadership certificate currently offered through the College of Business.
Program Details
Throughout the ethics certificate program, you'll learn how to understand the strengths and weaknesses of ethical perspectives and theories, and gain a greater awareness of yourself as an ethical reasoner and moral agent. No matter your career path, these skills can help you to more effectively make or defend decisions and help create positive change.
A portion of the ethics certificate is made up of courses chosen by you. This allows you to personalize your degree plan and focus on the topics that best align with your career goals. Students may also choose to participate in directed or independent studies, where you'll have the opportunity to work with an instructor on a real philosophical issue, problem or activity — giving you real-world experience before graduation.
Evaluate key ethical issues in medicine, law, business, computing and government. Better understand today's environmental issues, such as population growth, famine, pollution and preservation of species. Or explore ethical issues raised by computer technology and engineering. With so many interesting course options to choose from, you'll quickly find your passion and narrow your professional focus.
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UW-Eau Claire's ethics certificate curriculum will equip you to approach questions of value with clarity, balance, open-mindedness and rationality. Not only will you gain the skills to clearly articulate ethical concepts and arguments to others, you will also be encouraged to reflect inward and achieve a greater level of moral self-understanding and awareness.
Here are a few courses in Ethics at UW-Eau Claire.
PHIL 320
Environmental Ethics
Introduces major theoretical approaches to ethical and policy questions concerning environmental issues such as population growth, famine, nonhuman animals, atmospheric conditions, hazardous waste, preservation of species, pollution, pesticides, and nuclear power.
PHIL 331
Philosophical Ethics
An advanced course in moral philosophy comprising both normative ethical theory, the inquiry into the nature of right action, and metaethics, the second-order inquiry into the nature of moral judgment itself. Philosophers studied include historical figures (e.g., Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill) and contemporary authors as well.
PHIL 305
Ethics and Business
Major theories of corporate responsibility and their relationships to the personal and social dimensions of business life.
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