90-758, Ethics and Public Policy

6 units

Prerequisites: None

Delivery Format: On-Campus

Description:
This course will introduce students to the basic concepts, principles and theories of ethics and demonstrate the role that these might play in the formation of public policy. The course will also survey various social issues, explore current policies that deal with them and subject these policies to an ethics analysis. Among such issues that will be so addressed are: reproductive rights matters, end-of-life decisions, the death penalty, questions about free speech, information technology, pornography, social and economic justice and policy considerations dealing with environmental issues. The overall aim of the course is to assist students in developing their critical thinking skills and to persuasively argue their position on the ethics of individual public policy programs.

Last modified on June 1, 2006