Environmental Ethics

Catalog description

Environmental Ethics (3-0) This course will look at the history of the modern environmental movement, such as it emerged in the US during the nineteenth and twentieth centureis. The course will also examine some of the leading theories and debates, such as among social ecology, deep ecology, ecofeminism, bioregionalism, ecopsychology, Gaia theory, postmodernism, and primitivism. The course will cover as well as the relationship between different religious traditions and environmentalism.