Global and Environmental Justice

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Many of the most pressing issues of our time - climate change, poverty, human rights, war, refugees - raise issues of global and environmental justice. This course consists of in-depth study of the work contemporary philosophers writing on these issues. Topics may include: the duties of the affluent to aid the global poor, immigration, the rights of refugees and the duties of states, secession, war, the nature of environmental value, animal rights, and issues in climate justice. This course is intended as offering a rich grounding in moral, social and political philosophy and is relevant to questions in applied ethics.