Total Credit Hours: 17
To earn the Minor in Ethics, students must successfully complete 17 credits from the courses listed below. PHI 201: Ethical Theories is required and two additional courses in Philosophy must be taken. A minimum of 10 credits be taken at the 300/400 level, and students must earn a C average in the courses applied toward the minor and a minimum grade of C- in each course applied toward the minor. A minimum of eight credits applied towards the minor must be taken at SUNY Poly.
A. Required Course
- PHI 201: Ethical Theories
B. 100/200 level courses
- BIO 106: Solutions for a Sustainable World
- CJ 204: Ethics in Criminal Justice
- PHI 101: Introduction to Philosophy
- PHI 103: Moral Problems
- PHI 120: Introduction to Asian Philosophy
- PHI 130: World Religions
- PHI 220: Buddhist Philosophy
- POS 252: The Politics of Life and Death
- SOC 110: Social Problems
- SOC 220: Sociology of Gender
- SOC 230: Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations
- SOC 240: Class Inequality
C. 300/400 level courses (minimum 10 credits)
- BUS 451: Issues in Business and Society
- ENT 485: Reimagining Entrepreneurship
- IDS 321: Wicked Problems
- NUR 344: Ethical Issues in Nursing
- PHI 350: Technology and Ethics
- PHI 360: Environmental Philosophy and Technology
- PHI 361: Climate Change Ethics
- PHI 380: Existentialism
- PHI 410: Topics in Ethics (*May be repeated multiple times for credit if the topic differs)
- SOC 455: Sociology of Law and the Courts