2024-2025 Surry Community College Catalog 
    
    Nov 09, 2024  
2024-2025 Surry Community College Catalog
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PHI - 240 Introduction to Ethics


Class Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite(s): ENG 111 
Corequisite(s): None
Local Prerequisite(s): None
Local Co-requisite(s): None

This course introduces theories about the nature and foundations of moral judgments and applications to contemporary moral issues. Emphasis is placed on moral theories such as consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. Upon completion, students should be able to apply various ethical theories to moral issues such as abortion, capital punishment, poverty, war, terrorism, the treatment of animals, and issues arising from new technologies. *This course has been approved for transfer under the CAA and ICAA as a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course in Humanities/Fine Arts.*



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