Certificate of Less than One Year In Ethics
The Ethics Certificate is a standalone certificate in the philosophical study of ethics. This certificate is intended for students in any discipline, as it will provide students with skills and knowledge relevant to many aspects of their professional and personal lives. Courses in the certificate program engage students in the philosophical study of both theoretical and applied ethics. Students who earn this certificate will not only be able to demonstrate to prospective employers their knowledge of and commitment to ethics in the professional sphere, but will also be better equipped to analyze and evaluate the most difficult and controversial challenges facing our society today.
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The Ethics Certificate is a standalone certificate in the philosophical study of ethics. This certificate is intended for students in any discipline, as it will provide students with skills and knowledge relevant to many aspects of their professional and personal lives. Courses in the certificate program engage students in the philosophical study of both theoretical and applied ethics. Students who earn this certificate will not only be able to demonstrate to prospective employers their knowledge of and commitment to ethics in the professional sphere, but will also be better equipped to analyze and evaluate the most difficult and controversial challenges facing our society today.
Program Location
Carrollton Campus
Method of Delivery
Face to Face
Accreditation
The University of West Georgia is accredited by The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
Credit and transfer
Total semester hours required:
This program may be earned entirely face-to-face. However, depending on the courses chosen, a student may choose to take some partially or fully online courses.
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UWG is often ranked as one of the most affordable accredited universities of its kind, regardless of the method of delivery chosen.
Details
- Total tuition costs and fees may vary, depending on the instructional method of the courses in which the student chooses to enroll.
- The more courses a student takes in a single term, the more they will typically save in fees and total cost.
- Face-to-face or partially online courses are charged at the general tuition rate and all mandatory campus fees, based on the student's residency (non-residents are charged at a higher rate).
- Fully or entirely online course tuition rates and fees my vary depending on the program. Students enrolled in exclusively online courses do not pay non-Resident rates.
- Together this means that GA residents pay about the same if they take all face-to-face or partially online courses as they do if they take only fully online courses exclusively; while non-residents save money by taking fully online courses.
- One word of caution: If a student takes a combination of face-to-face and online courses in a single term, he/she will pay both all mandatory campus fees and the higher eTuition rate.
- For cost information, as well as payment deadlines, see the Student Accounts and Billing Services website
There are a variety of financial assistance options for students, including scholarships and work study programs. Visit the Office of Financial Aid's website for more information.
Certificate Required:
(3 credit hours)
An introduction to the central concepts in ethics and an exploration of such contemporary ethical issues as abortion, genetic engineering, euthanasia, and capital punishment. Required for the major in Philosophy.
Certificate Selects:
Select any three courses(9 credit hours total).
An examination of significant themes in political philosophy, highlighting the way in which major concepts of political thought evolved from ancient Greece to contemporary western society. By critically examining the works of classical and modern political theorists (such as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick), we will explore such topics as the nature of the distributive justice.
This course in moral philosophy examines central issues in areas such as meta-ethics (e.g., whether moral judgments are all relative to some standpoint, or true or false in any interesting sense) and normative and applied ethics (e.g., what makes objects of moral evaluation right or wrong or good or bad?).
Ethical and philosophical issues that arise in the context of medicine and bioresearch. Many ethical issues arise in health care contexts, including abortion, death, euthanasia, assisted reproduction, experimentation with human and animal subjects. This course introduces students to a selection of such issues and helps them to develop and articulate their own rational, informed views about them.
Learn about the value of nature and animals by exploring, applying, and evaluating central concepts in environmental philosophy.
An exploration of the major philosophical concepts that underlie our idea of law as well as application of these ideas to issues in moral, legal, criminological, and social philosophy
This course examines ethical questions that can arise in the professions and occupations, such as: Is my privacy violated when my job requires that I be tested for drugs? What should I do if I know that my employer is making an unsafe product? Should physicians ever lie to their patients? Do corporations have any responsibilities beyond making a profit for their shareholders? The course also examines more theoretical issues concerning professionalism and the professions, such as the nature of the relationship between professionals and clients and the connection between ordinary and professional morality. Required for philosophy majors in the Law and Justice track.
The aim of this course is to examine critically the central arguments of various feminist theories; to explore what it means to have a feminist approach to philosophical problems of epistemology, identity, morality, freedom, and human nature; to identify the presuppositions of theories; and to recognize the problematic principles of essentialism and exclusion from a more informed standpoint.
The aim of this course is to examine critically theories of relationships and love through examining important primary philosophical texts; to explore what it means to love; to grasp the value and meaning of friendship, love, and sex as social and personal elements; and to analyze particular moral issues related to love, sex, and human sexual relationships.
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Upon successful completion of the Ethics Certificate program, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the foundational concepts of ethics.
- Critically analyze moral problems from a philosophical perspective.
- Make a cogent moral argument.