This course offers students the opportunity to strengthen their abilities to address moral and ethical dilemmas that arise in their everyday lives, as well as many discipline areas.  It is a great elective for areas like criminal justice, sociology, psychology, medicine, and other professions.  Indeed many professions desire and reward job applicants with some ethical background.  Sample Discipline Topics include the following:  Biology -- Human Cloning, Fetal Rights  Psychology -- Inclusion, Sex Offenders Sociology -- Transracial Adoption, Living Wage Criminal Justice -- Dead Beat Parents, Female Gential Mutilation  Education -- School Uniforms, The Bell Curve, Vouchers  Business  English -- Tabloid Journalism

SAMPLE UNITS

Defining Morality, Moral Theory
Readings: "Morality and Moral Reasoning"

Connections Between Theology and Morality 

Readings: "Morality and Religion,"  "Good Reasoning," Online Library Reserve

Conceptions of the Good Life

Readings:  "Virtue and Vice,"  "Pragmatism"

Duties, Rights, Obligation, Justice

Readings:  "Human Rights"   "Human Rights, Justice, and Welfare,"

A Different Voice

Readings: "Feminism and Sexual Equality Moral Theory,"  "Concepts of Self and Morality," Online Library Reserve  "Women's  Rights and Women's Judgment," Online Library Reserve and "Agenda: Looking Toward the Next Century," Online Library Reserve

Applying Ethical Theories To Moral Issues 

Readings: "Morality and Sex," "Life and Death Issues,"
"Economic Inequality, Poverty, and Equal Opportunity, "Life and Death Issues,"