BSOC 2061

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  • Schedule of Classes - September 22, 2025 1:06PM EDT

BSOC 2061
Ethics and the Environment

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Politicians, scientists, and citizens worldwide face many environmental issues today, but they are neither simple nor straightforward. Moreover, there are many ways to understand how we have, do, and could value the environment from animal rights and wise use to deep ecology and ecofeminism. This class acquaints students with some of the challenging moral issues that arise in the context of environmental management and policy-making, both in the past and the present. Environmental concerns also highlight important economic, epistemological, legal, political, and social issues in assessing our moral obligations to nature as well as other humans. This course examines various perspectives expressed in both contemporary and historical debates over environmental ethics by exploring four central questions: What is nature? Who counts in environmental ethics? How do we know nature? Whose nature?


Distribution Requirements (ETH-AG, KCM-AG, SBA-AG), (ETM-AS, SSC-AS)

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 2960, STS 2061

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3803 BSOC 2061   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: seniors, juniors, and sophomores; first-year students by permission of instructor. If you are unable to enroll, please add yourself to the waitlist: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc91BggH--E_bZgqqqM--ISUz5xkL80aD1Mh0y-zulyGRXf8Q/viewform?usp=pp_url.

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  •  3804 BSOC 2061   DIS 201

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  3805 BSOC 2061   DIS 202

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  3806 BSOC 2061   DIS 203

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  3807 BSOC 2061   DIS 204

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Department Consent Required (Add)