Ethics Minor

Coordinator: Patrick Fleming
Email: fleminpj@jmu.edu
Phone: (540) 568-4233
Ethics Minor Website

Program Description

The 18-hour minor in ethics offers students an opportunity for deeper study into respected ethical thinkers and how ethical theory from philosophy and global religions can be used to understand our individual and social lives.

Minor Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Students are to choose six courses total from either of the lists below. At least one of the six must be from the philosophy list, and at least one of the six must be from the religion list. Students majoring in Philosophy or Global Religions and Cultures may double-count two courses (6 credits) from their major toward the minor. Students may also count one course from another department toward the minor, if the course includes a focus on ethics, with approval from the faculty advisor.		18
Total Credits		18

Philosophy Courses

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
PHIL 150	Ethical Reasoning [C1CT]	3
PHIL 200	Character and Virtue	3
PHIL 262	Problems in Applied Ethics	3
PHIL 267	Philosophy of Law	3
PHIL/REL 323	Comparative Ethics East and West	3
PHIL 330	Moral Theory	3
PHIL 335	The Individual, The State and Justice	3
PHIL 345	History of Ethics	3
PHIL/WGSS 350	The Philosophy of Feminism	3
PHIL 440	Advanced Moral Philosophy	3
PHIL 495	Philosophy Course Assistantship (if the assistantship is for an ethics course)	1-6

Religion Courses

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
REL 306	Gender and Sexuality in Islam	3
REL 314	Hope or Terror? Gandhi and the Other 9/11	3
REL 315	Women and Religion	3
REL 316	Dharma/Adharma: Hindu Ethical Reasoning	3
REL/PHIL 323	Comparative Ethics East and West	3
REL/IA 363	Apocalypticism, Religious Terrorism and Peace	3
REL 366	Religion, Animals and the Environment	3
REL 383	The Global Refugee Crisis and Religion	3
REL 385	Religion and the Law of War	3
REL 450	Religion and Society	3
REL 488	Buddhism in the Modern World	3