Undergraduate Bulletin - Loyola Marymount University

140 / ETHICS
Ethics
Director:
Scott Cameron
Objectives:
In response to the need to address ethical issues in the
various professions, the Philosophy Department, in
conjunction with other departments in the different
Colleges and Schools of the University, offers a minor in
Ethics. Its main focus is the deepening and broadening of
the students’ grasp of the foundations and applications of
ethics. It will complement and support the students’
chosen major by providing them with the opportunity to
pursue ethical inquiry of issues arising from their major
study.
The objectives of this program are: 1) to heighten the
students’ attentiveness to the pervasive moral dimension
of human experience; 2) to broaden and deepen their
understanding of ethical theories and their foundations;
and 3) to promote moral deliberation, evaluation,
decision, and conduct in concrete human living—in the
community; in the professions for which they are being
trained; in economic, social, and political institutions; and
in the unfolding course of human history.
Minor Requirements:
The minor in Ethics consists of 18 units, which
include the two core philosophy courses:
PHIL 160 Philosophy of Human Nature
3 semester hours
PHIL 320 Ethics
3 semester hours
TWO Foundations Courses:
One course selected from these Philosophy
courses:
PHIL 331 Political Philosophy
PHIL 332 Philosophy of Law
PHIL 333 Feminist Theory
PHIL 351 Philosophy of Culture
PHIL 352 Philosophy of the Arts
PHIL 353 Philosophy and Literature
PHIL 361 Philosophy of God
PHIL 362 Philosophy and Christianity
PHIL 363 Personalism
PHIL 364 Asian Philosophy
PHIL 365 Chinese Philosophy
PHIL 366 Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 367 African Philosophy
PHIL 421 American Pragmatism
PHIL 422 Analytic Tradition
PHIL 423 Phenomenology
PHIL 424 Existentialism
PHIL 425 Process Philosophy
PHIL 426 Postmodernism
PHIL 451 Major Thinkers
3 semester hours
One foundations course in ethics offered by
departments in any of the Colleges or Schools in
the University.
3 semester hours
TWO Applications Courses:
One course in Applied Ethics related to the
student’s College or School of origin chosen from
PHIL 321-329.
3 semester hours
One elective course in Applied Ethics selected
from the PHIL 321-330 options without regard
for the student’s College or School of origin.
3 semester hours