丁香园AV

Department of Philosophy | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
丁香园AV Calendar 2013 Summer

Students complete a minimum of 18 units, which includes three core courses in ethical theory (9-10 units) and three elective courses drawn from one of the streams listed below (9-12 units). In certain cases, students may devise their own stream in consultation with the philosophy undergraduate chair.

Students are responsible for completing prerequisites for any of the following courses. Note that PHIL 120W (or equivalent, with department permission) is a prerequisite for all of this certificate's philosophy courses.

A minimum grade of C- is required in all courses that are used to fufill the requirements of the certificate. An overall 丁香园AV cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 2.25 must be maintained. All upper division philosophy courses must be completed at 丁香园AV.

Program Requirements

Core Courses

Students complete both of

• PHIL 320 Social and Political Philosophy 3
  
• PHIL 321 Topics in Moral Philosophy 3

and one of

• PHIL 322 History of Ethics 3
  
• PHIL 327 Global Health Ethics 3
  
• PHIL 328 Environmental Ethics 3
  
• PHIL 421W Advanced Topics in Ethical Theory 4

any 300 or 400 division PHIL special topics course in ethics (consult the philosophy undergraduate advisor to confirm whether a given special topics course qualifies as an ethics course)

Concentration in Ethics, Justice and Law

The stream is primarily for students in the School of Criminology, or those who are majoring in political science who wish to focus their studies around issues of ethics and justice as it relates to law.

Students complete three of

• BUEC 427W Industrial Organization: Law and Economics 3
  
• CRIM 314 Mental Disorder, Criminality and the Law 3
  
• CRIM 331 Advanced Criminal Law 3
  
• CRIM 333 Women, Law and the State 3
  
• CRIM 334 Law and Human Reproduction 3
  
• CRIM 335 Human Rights and Civil Liberties 3
  
• CRIM 338 Philosophy of Law 3
  
• CRIM 429 Indigenous Peoples and International Law 3 or
  

• FNST 429 Indigenous Peoples and International Law 3
  
• GSWS 334 Law and Human Reproduction 3
  
• POL 324 The Canadian Constitution 4
  
• POL 344 International Law 4
  
• POL 417 Human Rights Theories 4
  
• PSYC 376 Experimental Psychology and Law 3

Concentration in Ethics, Business and Economics

This stream is intended for students in the Beedie School of Business, or those who are majoring in economics.

Students complete three of

• BUS 303 Business, Society and Ethics 3
  
• BUS 403 Seminar in Business and Society 3
  
• BUS 432 International Human Resource Management 3
  
• BUS 449 Ethical Issues in Marketing 3
  
• CRIM 336 Corporate Crime and Corporate Regulation 3
  
• ECON 342 International Trade 3
  
• ECON 354 Comparative Economic Institutions 3
  
• ECON 355W Economic Development 4
  
• ECON 392 Public Economics: Role of Government 3
  
• GSWS 308 Women in the Economy: Paid and Unpaid Labour 3

Concentration in Ethics and Global Justice

This stream is intended primarily for students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, or the Faculty of Health Sciences who wish to focus their studies around issues of justice in an international and multicultural context.

Students complete three of

• CRIM 315 Restorative Justice 4
  
• FNST 401 Aboriginal Rights and Government Relations 3
  
• FNST 419 Aboriginal/Indigenous Justice 3
  
• FNST 429 Indigenous Peoples and International Law 3
  
• FNST 443 Aboriginal Peoples, History and the Law 4
  
• GSWS 308 Women in the Economy: Paid and Unpaid Labour 4
  
• GSWS 314 Race, Class and Gender 4
  
• GSWS 327 Aboriginal Women in Canada 4
  
• HSCI 308 Sickness and Wealth: Health in Global Perspective 3
  
• HSCI 319W Applied Health Ethics 3
  
• HSCI 329 Exploitation and Vulnerable Populations 3
  
• HSCI 406 Global Perspectives in Indigenous Health 3
  
• IS 302 Introduction to Humanitarian Intervention 4
  
• IS 311 Democratic Transition in Comparative Perspective 4
  
• IS 407 Selected Topics - Terrorism 4
  
• IS 410 Politics, Institutions and Development 4
  
• IS 427 Selected Topics - Globalization, Poverty and Inequality 4
  
• POL 312 Modern Political Thought 4
  
• POL 344 International Law 4
  
• POL 346 International Organization 4
  
• POL 411 Normative Political Theory 4
  
• POL 416 Feminist Social and Political Thought 4
  
• POL 417 Human Rights Theories 4
  
• SA 363 Process of Development and Underdevelopment (S or A) 4
  
• SA 388 Comparative Studies of Minority Indigenous Peoples (S or A) 4
  
• SA 418 International Health: Global Policies and Local Realities (S or A) 4
  
• SA 430 States, Cultures and Global Transitions (S or A) 4

Concentration in Ethics and the Environment

This stream is intended for students in the Faculty of Environment or students majoring in biological sciences or economics who wish to add a concentration in ethics to their studies. The SA and GSWS courses also opens this stream to Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences students and the broader University community.

Students complete three of

• ARCH 365 Ecological Archaeology 3
  
• ARCH 386 Archaeological Resource Management 3
  
• BISC 204 Introduction to Ecology 3
  
• BISC 309 Conservation Biology 3
  
• BISC 419 Wildlife Biology 3
  
• BISC 440 Biodiversity 3
  
• ECON 260 Environmental Economics 3
  
• ECON 362 Economics of Natural Resources 4
  
• ENV 321 Ecological Economics 3 or

• REM 321 Ecological Economics 3
  
• GEOG 322 World Resources 4
  
• GEOG 325 Geographies of Consumption 4
  
• GEOG 381 Political Geography 4
  
• GEOG 386 Health Geography 4
  
• GEOG 389W Nature and Society 4
  
• GEOG 429 Environment and Inequality 4
  
• GEOG 440 Law and Geography 4
  
• HSCI 304 Perspectives on Environmental Health 3
  
• REM 311 Applied Ecology and Sustainable Environments 3
  
• REM 356 Institutional Arrangements for Sustainable Environmental Management 3
  
• REM 445 Environmental Risk Assessment 3
  
• REM 471 Forest Ecosystem Management 3
  
• SA 326 Ecology and Social Thought (S or A) 4
  
• SA 371 The Environment and Society (S or A) 4

Concentration in Ethics and Health

This stream is intended for students in the Faculty of Health Sciences who are interested in focusing their studies around ethical issues in health, life and death.

Students complete three of

• CRIM 314 Mental Disorder, Criminality and the Law 3
  
• GEOG 386 Health Geography 4
  
• GERO 302 Health Promotion and Aging 3
  
• GERO 406 Death and Dying 3
  
• GERO 420 Sociology of Aging 4
  
• HSCI 304 Perspectives on Environmental Health 3
  
• HSCI 305 The Canadian Health System 3
  
• HSCI 309 Health and the Built Environment 3
  
• HSCI 319W Applied Health Ethics 3
  
• HSCI 402 Substance Use and Addiction 3
  
• HSCI 404 Public Policy and Health Systems 3
  
• HSCI 481 Senior Seminar in Social Health Science 3

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