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2021-2022

Introduction to Ethics PHI-240

Last updated on July 15, 2020, 5:05 p.m.

This course introduces theories about the nature and foundations of moral judgments and applications to contemporary moral issues. Emphasis is placed on moral theories such as consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. Upon completion, students should be able to apply various ethical theories to moral issues such as abortion, capital punishment, poverty, war, terrorism, the treatment of animals, and issues arising from new technologies.

This course is a Universal General Education Transfer Component course that is guaranteed to transfer for general education equivalency credit to each of the 16 institutions in the University of North Carolina system.


Course Hours

Class Lab Clinical Work SHC
3.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.00

Prerequisites

Take ENG-111