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CS92PROD
Humans, Animals, and Nature

PHIL 215
Fall 2011
Section: 01  
Crosslisting: ENVS 215
Certificates: Environmental Studies

Though a variety of important issues are central to understanding the complexity of relationships between humans, nonhumans, and the rest of nature, this year the course will focus primarily on human relations to nonhuman animals--in captivity, in agribusiness, and in the wild. The goals of the course are to help you to think critically, to read carefully, to argue well, and to defend your own reasoned views about the moral relations between humans, animals, and nature.

Essential Capabilities: Ethical Reasoning
This course actively engages students in reasoning about ethical controversies related to its subject matter. We will pay careful attention to how one reasons about these questions.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS PHIL
Course Format: Lecture / DiscussionGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: (ANST-MN)(ENVS-MN)(ENVS)(FGSS)(PHIL)(PHIL-Philosophy)(PHIL-Social Jus)(STS)
Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available

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