Environmental Values Minor

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The minor in Environmental Values may be added to any bachelor’s program at UW. This minor creates a vital link among the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences through exploration of aesthetics, culture, ethics, and policy.

The minor requires a total of 18 credit hours, including at least one course within each of four areas of concentration. At least 12 of these credits must be outside the primary major, and nine of these credits must be at or above the 3000-level.

Core Course

A three-hour, core course is required of all students.

PHIL 2330 - Environmental Ethics Credits: 3
OR
PHIL 2340 - Natural Resources Ethics Credits: 3

Areas of Concentration:

(note: the courses listed below are provided as examples of the type of courses that meet the various areas of concentration. Other courses may be approved on a course by course basis in consultation with the Philosophy Department Undergraduate Advisor.)

Aesthetics

Expressing ourselves through the performing, visual and literary arts:

ART 4640
ENGL 4050
ENGL 4240
GEOG 4500 - The American Landscape Credits: 3
GEOG 4530
THEA 2400 - Vertical Dance I Credits: 1
THEA 3400 - Vertical Dance II Credits: 1

Culture

Viewing human meaning and purpose in historical and contemporary terms:

NAIS 3000 - Plains Culture and History Credits: 3
AMST 3000
ANTH 4310 - Environmental Anthropology Credits: 3
ENGL 3400 - Topics in: Eighteenth-Century Literature Credits: 3
ENGL 4480 - Regional Literature of the US: The West Credits: 3
ENR 2000 - Environment and Society Credits: 3
ENR 3050 - Cultures of Nature in the United States Credits: 3
GEOG 1050
HIST 4475 - American Environmental History Credits: 3
PHCY 4380

Ethics

Considering right and wrong via critical and systematic thinking and doing:

PHIL 2330 - Environmental Ethics Credits: 3
PHIL 2345 - Natural Resource Ethics Credits: 3
PHIL 3250 - Global Justice Credits: 3
PHIL 3300 - Ethical Theory Credits: 3
PHIL 3350 - History of Moral Philosophy Credits: 3
PHIL 4340 - Issues in Environmental Ethics Credits: 3
RELI 2060

Policy

Exploring laws, regulations, and public discourse in American society:

AGEC 4710 - Natural Resource Law and Policy Credits: 3
NAIS 4340 - Natural Resource Management on Western Reservations Credits: 3
ECON 2400 - Economics of the Environment Credits: 3
ENR 4900 - ENR Policy in Practice Credits: 3
GEOG 4040 - Conservation of Natural Resources Credits: 3
GEOG 4400 - Natural Resource Policy Credits: 3
MGT 4580
POLS 4051 - Environmental Politics Credits: 3
POLS 4052 - Federal Land Politics Credits: 3