RP 230 - Ethics

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: EN 131. This course may be used to satisfy the General Education requirement for a course in Religion and Philosophy. A course that examines the moral standards of our culture and considers theories and applications of moral reasoning to some of the social and personal complexities of our time. The course emphasizes values and ethics commensurate with those values and the role both play in our lives, socially and personally. The course examines the ways in which ethics and a sense of morality are shaped by society while also being transformative of society. Finally, the course explores different classical and contemporary moral theories and introduces various ways to consider justice. (FA, SP, SU)