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Ethics Minor Courses

The UO’s Minor in Ethics can be fulfilled with one core course and five additional ethics electives, both chosen from the lists below. It is frequently the case that special occasional courses or topics courses can be used to fulfill the electives requirement, so if you have any questions email the Ethics Minor Director at ethicsminor@uoregon.edu with your questions. Please also be sure to consult the ‘Complete Requirements’ section of the Ethics Minor webpage.

One Core Course

All students studying for the Minor in Ethics must complete one of the following two core course options (the other can be used as an elective if the student wishes):

• PHIL 102, Introduction to Ethics – This course is designed to provide basic foundations in major moral theories and experience with critical assessment of contemporary moral debates.

• PHIL 323, Advanced Moral Theory – This course offers a more advanced introduction to the theoretical and philosophical aspects of moral matters. This course will be an appropriate ‘core course’ for junior- or senior-level students who are coming to the Ethics Minor with experience in other Philosophy courses or with solid preparation in advanced upper-level work in other Humanities disciplines.

Five Electives

Beyond the core course requirement, students studying for the Minor in Ethics enroll in five additional ethics electives chosen from the list below. (Note that of the of the 6 courses total, at least 3 must be upper-level [300- or 400-level], and at least 1 must be senior-level [400-level].)

• PHIL 102, Introduction to Ethics
• PHIL 120, Business Ethics (Ethics of Enterprise and Exchange)
• PHIL 123, Internet Ethics (Internet, Society, and Philosophy)
• PHIL 130, Philosophy and Popular Culture
• PHIL 135, Ethics of the Life Sciences
• PHIL 170, Philosophy of Love and Sex
• PHIL 216, Philosophy and Cultural Diversity
• PHIL 220, Food Ethics
• PHIL 223, Data Ethics
PHIL 299: Sports Ethics
• PHIL 307, Social/Political Philosophy I
• PHIL 308, Social/Political Philosophy II
• PHIL 309, Global Justice
• PHIL 315, Introduction to Feminist Philosophy
• PHIL 323, Moral Theory
• PHIL 330, Philosophy of Disaster
• PHIL 332, Philosophy of Film
• PHIL 335, Medical Ethics (aka Health Care Ethics, Bioethics)
• PHIL 340, Environmental Philosophy
• PHIL 342, Introduction to Latin American Philosophy
• PHIL 343, Critical Theory
• PHIL 344, Philosophy of Law
• ENVS 345, Environmental Ethics
• PHIL 423, Technology Ethics
• PHIL 443, Feminist Philosophy
• PHIL 451, Native American Philosophy
• PHIL 452, Philosophy of Race
• … any other Philosophy course focusing primarily on topics in ethics (contingent upon review by and approval from Instructor of Record as well as Ethics Minor Director). Note that the Philosophy Department frequently offers 400-level ‘Author Courses’ (PHIL 463, 453, 443, and 421) as well as other 400-level Topics Courses that focus on topics of ethics and can be used to satisfy the Minor in Ethics (these are often listed below at the bottom of this page for the relevant term in which they are being offered).

• Any one UO course from outside the Philosophy Department that is focused primarily on ethics (note that this may be used for only one of the courses counting toward fulfilling the minor such that if this option is used then all of the student’s other courses in ethics must be offerings from the list above). Students can choose this one outside course from the list of pre-approved courses below or they can petition that another course offering be approved as an elective for the Minor in Ethics (the petition will be reviewed by the advising Ethics Minor Director). Pre-approved courses from outside the Philosophy Department include:

o BA 325, Business Law & Ethics
o CIS 490, Computer Ethics
o CRES 420, Restorative Justice
o ENG 491, Rhetoric and Ethics
o ENVS 435, Environmental Justice
o ES 101, Introduction to Ethnic Studies
o J 397, Media Ethics
o J 496, Communication Ethics and Law
o PS 104, Problems in United States Politics
o PS 106, Power, Politics, and Inequality
o PSY 202, Mind and Society
o SOC 207, Social Inequality
o WGS 101, Women/Difference/Power

 

Planned Ethics Minor Course Offerings

For a regularly-updated list of Ethics Minor Courses students should consult the Course Listings page and look for the ‘ETEL‘ distribution code.)