University Requirements: Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning (3 credits)

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Social responsibility refers to how we engage in the civic life of our communities and develop the combination of knowledge, skills, values, and motivation for meaningful engagement. Ethical reasoning is reasoning about right and wrong human conduct. This category aims to engage students in thinking about ethics so that they can be informed and active citizens, while also contributing to their respective disciplines, professional fields, and civic life. Students’ sense of social responsibility evolves as they practice ethical decision-making skills and learn how to describe and analyze positions on ethical issues. Ethical reasoning requires students to be able to assess their own ethical values and the social context of problems, recognize ethical issues in a variety of settings, think about how different perspectives might be applied to ethical dilemmas, and consider the ramifications of alternative actions.

Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning

Courses must be selected from the list of approved social responsibility and ethical reasoning courses, which includes a wide array of disciplines (e.g., ethics and government, literature, science and society, wellness) and a variety of pedagogical methods (e.g., case studies, small group discussions, service learning, lectures, reading assignments, and activity courses).

AEC-191 The Built Environment (3 cr.)
ANTH-230 Anthropology of the Contemporary United States (3 cr.)
ANTH-290 Global Political Ecology (3 cr.)
ANTH-293 Environmental Justice (3 cr.)
ANTH-356 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3 cr.)
ARTH-331 Art and Controversy (3 cr.)
BIO-226 Contagious Diseases (3 cr.)
BUMGT-235 Management Ethics (3 cr.)
COMST-312 Intercultural Communication (3 cr.)
DES-101 Design Thinking in Society (3 cr.)
DES-150 Introduction to Sustainable Design and Development (3 cr.)
ECON-250 Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy (3 cr.)
ECON-360 Strategic Decision Making and Game Theory (3 cr.)
EDUC-320 Racism and Colonialism: Impact on Communities and Education (3 cr.)
EDUC-330 Multiculturalism: Dialogue and Field Experience (3 cr.)
ETECH-100 Impacts of Engineering (3 cr.)
FN-210 Issues and Ethics in Food and Nutrition (3 cr.)
GEOG-251 Introduction to Geospatial Technologies (3 cr.)
GEOG-290 Global Political Ecology (3 cr.)
HDFS-257 Lifespan Sexuality (3 cr.)
HIST-130 Greeks, Romans and Barbarians: The Uses and Misuses of Our Global Past (3 cr.)
HIST-340 Constructed Identities: History of Race, Ethnicities and Mixed-Race Peoples (3 cr.)
HIST-377 History of Ideas in the Age of Technology (3 cr.)
HIST-392 History of Mad Science (3 cr.)
HT-252 Professionalism (3 cr.)
HWF-340 Community CPR, Automatic External Defibrillation and First Aid (3 cr.)
ICT-215 Cybertechnology Ethics (3 cr.)
LIT-275 Environmental Literature (3 cr.)
LIT-307 After 9/11: American Literature of Public Crisis and Trauma (3 cr.)
NANO-101 Explorations in Nanotechnology (3 cr.)
PAX-201 Introduction to Applied Peace Studies (3 cr.)
PE-201 Wellness and Social Responsibility (3 cr.)
PE-204 Competition in the 21st Century (3 cr.)
PE-205 Lifelong Wellness (3 cr.)
PHIL-201 Introduction to Philosophy (3 cr.)
PHIL-205 Philosophy of Religion (3 cr.)
PHIL-220 Multicultural Philosophy (3 cr.)
PHIL-235 General Ethics (3 cr.)
PHIL-275 Business Ethics (3 cr.)
PHYS-301 Physics for Future Presidents (3 cr.)
POLS-260 Problems of U.S. Foreign Policy (3 cr.)
POLS-305 Clickbait: News, Media, and Politics in the U.S. (3 cr.)
PSYC-280 Forensic Psychology, Law and Ethics (3 cr.)
PSYC-281 Psychology for Sustainability (3 cr.)
SOC-290 Global Political Ecology (3 cr.)
SOC-291 Sociology of Health and Illness (3 cr.)
SOC-293 Environmental Justice (3 cr.)
SOC-325 Society and Leisure (3 cr.)
SOC-375 Sociology Of Minority Groups (3 cr.)
SOC-385 Globalization and Social Change (3 cr.)
TRDIS-220 Insights into Innovation and Ideation (3 cr.)
WGS-356 Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective (3 cr.)

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University Requirements: Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning (3 credits)

Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning