Undergraduate Certificate: Ethics
Student Learning Outcomes
Students graduating from this program will:
- Identify ethical issues, dilemmas, and values.
- Understand major ethical theories developed in the western philosophy tradition.
- Evaluate ethical issues, dilemmas, and values through a ethical theory lens.
A Certificate in Ethics is designed for students interested in exploring ethical theory and its applications.
To be awarded the certificate, students must earn a minimum GPA of 2.0 in the 12-credit-hour program outlined below. No credit will be granted for courses with a grade lower than C-. This certificate may only be awarded in conjunction with a UMKC undergraduate degree.
Certificate Requirements
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Coursework | 3 | |
| Select one of the following: | ||
| Contemporary Moral Issues | ||
| Ethics | ||
| Elective Coursework | 9 | |
| Select any three electives from any combination of the following categories (if not used above): | ||
| Ethics Electives | ||
| Contemporary Moral Issues | ||
| Friendship and Flourishing | ||
| Ethics | ||
| Environmental Ethics And Policy | ||
| Professional Ethics | ||
| Ethics and Government | ||
| Bioethics | ||
| Reproductive Ethics | ||
| Value Theory Electives | ||
| Aesthetics | ||
| Existentialism | ||
| Social And Political Philosophy | ||
| Philosophy Of Law | ||
| Buddhist Philosophy | ||
| Feminist Philosophy | ||
| The Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. | ||
| Interdisciplinary Electives | ||
| Issues in Environmental Science | ||
| Media Ethics | ||
| Ethics and Policy of Public Health Promotion (additional pre/co-reqs required) | ||
| Leadership and Problem Solving (additional pre/co-reqs required) | ||
| Leadership and Ethics (additional pre/co-reqs required) | ||
| Western Political Philosophy | ||
| Legitimacy, Power, and the Survival of Political Systems | ||
| Government And Politics | ||
| Total Credits | 12 | |