Graduate Specialization in Ethics and Development

 

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Students who plan to complete the requirements for a graduate specialization in Ethics and Development as part of their master's or doctoral program, should consult the Director of the Ethics and Development Graduate Specialization in the College of Arts & Letters and an affiliated faculty member in their department. The content of some elective courses may vary depending upon the instructor; therefore, only those elective offerings approved by the Director of the Specialization in consultation with affiliated faculty may count toward the Specialization.

Requirements: Students must complete 9-12 credits from the courses listed below. All students must take courses in at least two departments. All students must also take at least one course at the 800 level from the list of electives (unless otherwise approved by the Director of the Specialization).

Required:
PHL 452 Ethics and Development
One 800 level course approved by the Director of the Specialization
Strongly Recommended for doctoral students:
PHL 485 Philosophy of Social Science

Electives:
AEC 810 Institutional and Behavioral Economics
AEC 861 Agriculture in Economic Development
AEC 978 Research Methodologies in Agricultural Economics

ANP 825 Research Design
ANP 826 International Development
ANP 828 Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change
ANP 831 Cultural Ecology
ANP 436 Globalization and Justice
ANP 837 Seminar in Economic Anthropology
ANP 859 Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change: Methods and Application

FW 858 Gender, Justice and Environmental Change: Issues and Concepts

GEO 418 The Ghetto
GEO 432 Environmental Ethics in Geography(W)
GEO 454 Spatial Aspects of Regional Development
GEO 813 Seminar in Urban and Economic Geography
GEO 850 Seminar in Regional Geography
GEO 854 Economics of Planning and Development
GEO 872 Seminar in Human Geography
GEO 858 Gender, Justice and Environmental Change : Issues and Concepts
GEO 859 Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change: Methods and Application

HRT 486 Biotechnology in Agriculture: Applications and Ethical Issues

PHL 440 Central Issues in Ethics
PHL 450 Liberal Theory and its Critics
PHL 451 Philosophy and the Black Experience
PHL 456 Topics in Feminist Philosophy
PHL 486 Bioetechnology in Agriculture: Applications and Ethical Issues
PHL 840 Seminar in Value Theory
PHL 850 Seminar in Social and Political Philosophy
PHL 880 Philosophy of Science

PLS 853 Political Economy of Development Policy

RD 826 International Development and Sustainability

SOC 450 Forestry in International Development
SOC 832 International Inequality and Development
SOC 850 Population, Food, and Development
SOC 858 Gender, Justice and Environmental Change : Issues and Concepts
SOC 859 Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change: Methods and Application
SOC 864 Social Ecology
SOC 869 Community and Conservation
SOC 868 Science and Technology
SOC 890 Social Science Research Seminar