Academic Catalog

Ethics Minor

Faculty: Professors Kelley (chair), Oliver;  Associate Professor Zabrowski

The ethics minor at Bradley is administered by the Department of World Languages and Cultures. The program in ethics is designed to provide a methodologically and theoretically grounded curriculum in ethical studies. The program will challenge students to deepen their thinking about ethics through multiple approaches drawn from philosophy and religious studies. Students electing an ethics minor will select an advisor from the participating Ethics minor program faculty to guide them in choosing 15 credit hours of courses in ethics. Where appropriate, the curriculum will include the opportunity to study ethics in the context of a student’s major.

Required:

PHL 347 Ethics

Electives:

ATG 268 Business Ethics

BIO 505 Topics in Bioethics

BLW 342 Legal Environment of Business

CRMCJS 401 Ethics, Crime, and Criminal Justice

COM 330 Communication Law and Ethics

NUR 510 Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare

PHL 103 An Inquiry into Values

PLS 207 Introduction to Political Thought

RLS 101 Comparative Religion

RLS 200 Contemporary Religion in the United States

RLS 300 Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

RLS 302 New Testament

RLS 305 Monasticism

Topics courses, independent studies, and other courses in other departments will be recognized when the course content substantially addresses the study of ethics as determined by the ethics minor faculty. Three credits may be taken in ethics courses in the department(s) of the student’s major(s), as approved by the ethics minor Philosophy and Religious Studies faculty.

2.  have a minimum grade point average of 2.0 in all courses.

3.  select an advisor from the faculty in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies who will guide the student in choosing courses.