Minor in Ethics

Both majors, along with the Ethics Minor, encourage a sense of public and professional service that guides individuals and communities in achieving worthwhile and enduring goals. Courses in theoretical and applied ethics such as Biomedical Ethics, Ethics in Business, Ethics Practicum, and Environmental Ethics can provide a focus in either major. In combination with course in management, finance, or psychology, the Ethics Minor can be used as a supplement to many other technical majors and professional degree programs in the university.

Ethics concerns us all: Questions of moral responsibility, professional conduct, value formation, civil rights and protective legislation are raised repeatedly today in the fields of business, medicine, government, law, education and within the family and our communities.

Set your resume apart from the rest: This flexible and versatile interdisciplinary minor will really set your resume apart from the others in the stack. It will indicate to employers in any field that you care about ethical personal and professional behavior, and that you have made the study of ethics an important part of your preparation at the university.

Sharpen your thinking: Sharpen your skills of critical and conceptual analysis in ethical reflection through a short, strategically designed minor.

Broaden your perspective: Study ethical issues in your own field of study and relate them to other fields and to the universal conceptual frameworks of philosophy and religious thought.

The Ethics Minor contains a core selected to sharpen your critical and analytic skills of moral reflection and to inform you of both classical and contemporary scholarly work in ethics.

15 credit hours

Department of Philosophy and Religion
Jerome P. Soneson, Acting Department Head
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls IA. 50613-0501
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