Sponsored by:  The Arts and Humanities and History and Society Divisions

Faculty Contact: Brian Seitz
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Courses in Ethics, Philosophy, and Culture explore how individuals and communities construct and find meaning in the world around them.  This concentration allows students to understand how cultural and ethical structures are inherited, cultivated, and perpetuated locally and globally, and how they animate and orient human experience.  Students take a broad range of courses in philosophy, anthropology, communications, history, political science and law to learn about people as actors in a social environment.

Required Courses:
Students Must choose a Minimum distribution from the following list:

At least three (3) of the four (4) courses required to complete this concentration must be selected from the following list of Primary Courses:

Primary Courses:   
ANT3671: Material Culture
ANT3672:  World Religions in Everyday Life (Inactive)
ANT 3615: Anthropology of Food
GDR3610: Women’s Studies
PHL 3601: Greek Philosophy: The Golden Age
PHL 3603: Modern Philosophy
PHL 3605: Contemporary Ethics
PHL 3607: Existentialism    
PHL3609: Technology, Nature, and Values
PHL 3610: Aesthetics: Beauty and the Eye of the Beholder
PHL3611: Social and Political Philosophy
PHL3615: Philosophical Problems of Economic Justice
SOC3675: Inequality in Everyday Life

One (1) of the Four (4) courses required to complete this concentration may be selected from the following list of Secondary Courses:

Secondary Courses:
FRN 4600: Advanced French (Inactive)
HIS 3600: Modern Japan
HIS3601: Cultural History of the European Renaissance
HIS3603: Germany: Bismarck – Hitler
HIS 3604: Sexuality and Power in Modern Society
HIS3671: Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
HIS3680: Modern China
JPN4600: Advanced Japanese (Inactive)
LIT3682: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights
POL3675: Justice, Revenge, Defeat
SPN4670: Advanced Spanish (Inactive)
VSA 3600: Art, Religion, and Politics in Ancient Egypt
VSA 3601: Greek and Roman Art