Syllabus for Values Seminar, ASC 400: Environmental Ethics, Spring 1998

class meets: Thursday 8:00-10:50, Kirk. 209.
Dr. John Serembus 1 and Dr. Bruce W. Grant 2
1 Department of Philosophy, Associate Dean of Humanities, office LC, 610-499-4356
2 Department of Biology, office Kirk. 200, 610-499-4017, grant@pop1.science.widener.edu
  Widener University, Chester, PA, 19013.

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Class Schedule (Spring 1998).

week #
date
topic { reading/ viewing }
#1
Jan 15
Ecological literacy, the ecological imperative, and the next environmental revolution. {DesJardains, ch 1.}
#2
Jan 22
Introduction to value theory, ethical relativism, why be moral? {DesJardains, ch. 2}
#3
Jan 29
Consequentialist ethical theories.{DesJardains, ch. 5 & 7}
#4
Feb 5
Deontological and virtue-based ethical theories. {DesJardains, ch. 3}
#5
Feb 12
Theories of rights. {DesJardains, ch. 6}
#6
Feb 19
Sustainable development, international, social, gender, and intergenerational inequity. {Race To Save The Planet, videotape #4}
#7
Feb 26
The Pocono shuffle, ecological economics and the valuation of nature. {DesJardains, ch. 3}
#8
Mar 5
*** spring break ***
#9
Mar 12
Energy supply, energy demand, fossil fuels, solar, and nuclear power. {Race To Save The Planet, videotape #6}
#10
Mar 19
Climate change - ozone depletion, global warming, international policy. {Race To Save The Planet, videotape #2}
#11
Mar 26
Waste and recycling, cost benefit analysis, and the value of a human life. {DesJardains, ch. 3, & Race To Save The Planet, videotape #8}
#12
Apr 2
Biodiversity protection, the Endangered Species Act, ecosystem management. {Race To Save The Planet, videotape #5}
#13
Apr 9
Student presentations/ group seminar.
#14
Apr 16
Student presentations/ group seminar.
#15
Apr 23
Student presentations/ group seminar.



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