Certificate in Ethics
The Certificate in Ethics will provide students with the opportunity to gain a university-level credential in theoretical and applied ethics. The Certificate is comprised of eighteen (18) credit hours and offered in the following five areas of concentration: Ethical Theory, Health Ethicism, Business Ethics, Military Ethics, and Environmental Ethics.
- Required Courses
The Certificate will require the successful completion (with a grade of B-or higher) of six (6) courses, totaling eighteen credit hours, which shall include the following:
a. three (3) core courses, including PHIL 1101 Critical Thinking, a 2000-level course in Ethical Theory, and a breadth of requirements drawn from a Certificate area of concentration in applied ethics that is NOT being pursued by the student.
b. three (3) elective courses in the student's area of concentration, including one (1) 3000-level course.
(For a list of possible courses see below).
c. with the added proviso that students cannot take more than two (2) elective courses from the student's own home department.
The course work will be approved by the Department of Philosophy.
To be awarded the Certificate, a minimum of nine (9) hours must be completed at UNB. Subject to approval by the Dean of Arts, a maximum of nine (9) credit hours (or the equivalent) of comparable coursework may be transferred from another recognized post-secondary institution. Credit will not normally be awarded for those courses completed more than five years prior to student’s return to university study, in accordance with the norms already in place by the Registrar’s office. - Possible Courses
ADM 3875 Labour Relations
ANTH 4024 Anthropology and Ethics
CCS 3063 Literature of the Holocaust
CCS 3064 The Holocaust: East European Representations and Responses
CLAS 3063 Ancient Greek Warfare
CLAS 3513 The Trojan War: Myth and History
ECON 3203 Public Finance Analysis
ENGG 4013 Law and Ethics for Engineers
ENVM 1001 Professional Skills in Forestry and Environmental Management
ENVM 1002 Resource Management Issues, Ethics and Communications
ENVM 2021 Natural Resource Management, Institutions, Policy and Government
ENVM 2023 Understanding Environmental Issues
FOR 2946 Bioethics, Emotional Intelligence, and the Nature of Spirituality
HIST 1009 Epidemic Disease from the Middle Ages to the Present
HIST 5275 Health and Medicine in Early Modern England
HIST 4851 Law and War
HIST 1625 The Spy in History
HIST 3825 That Nature and Limits of Military Power
KIN 3093 Introduction to Ethics of Sport & Recreation
KIN 4093 Seminar on Health Care Ethics
PHIL 1201 Ethics of Life and Death
PHIL 2201 Introduction to Ethics
PHIL 2203 Business Ethics
PHIL 2206 Environmental Ethics (students can receive credit for only one of PHIL 2206, PHIL 3206, or PHIL 3208)
PHIL 3261 Military Ethics
PHIL 2209 Health Care Ethics in Canada (cannot take both PHIL 2209 and PHIL 3207 for credit)
PHIL 3205 Contemporary Ethical Theory
PHIL 3207 Health Care Ethics (students can receive credit for only one of PHIL 2209 and PHIL 3207 for credit)
PHIL 3208 Ecological Ethics (students can receive credit for only one of PHIL 2206, PHIL 3206, or PHIL 3208)
PHIL 3302 Later Greek Philosophy
PHIL 3306 Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and the Roots of Postmodern
PHIL 3308 Plato's Republic
PHIL 3312 Infinity: Emmanuel Levinas' Encounter with the Other
PHIL 3315 Hannah Arendt and S. de Beauvoir
POLS 1503 Law, Power and Politics
POLS 1603 Politics of Globalization
POLS 2503 Women & Politics
POLS 3103 Right in Conflict in North America
POLS 3715 Critique of Alienation in Social & Political Thought
POLS 3718 International Security in Theory and Practice
POLS 3415 Liberalism
POLS 3433 Late Modern Political Thought
POLS 4463 Eros & Leadership
POLS 4496 Thucydides: War and Empire
POLS 4495 Gender and War: History and Contemporary Persepectives
SOCI 3004 Theoretical Foundations of Sociology
SOCI 2365 Sociology of Death and Dying
SOCI 3623 White Collar Crime
SOCI 3371 The Institution of Health Care
SOCI 3533 Social Stratification
SOCI 4513 Inequality and Social Justice
SOCI 3636 Restorative Justice
SOCI 3635 Conflict Resolution
SOCI 4624 Health Care in International Context
