Following up Cade's report yesterday on the different approaches to happiness taken by psychologists and philosophers, and what it means for philosophy to be "applied" versus "abstract"... I mentioned my Environmental Ethics course (returning next Fall), maybe this recent forced exercise is illustrative:
SLOs
Our administrative overlords have required us to submit boilerplate about our learning outcomes. I think this course is aiming at these:
PHIL 3340, Environmental Ethics SLOs
* Heighten students' awareness of the salient issues and challenges emerging from the ever-increasing (and increasingly-deleterious) impact of human activity on the natural world.
* Impress upon students the potentially-dire ecological implications of anthropogenic impacts for all of life (human and otherwise) in the near and distant future.
* Encourage students to reflect urgently on what steps individuals, institutions, and societies must take if these impacts are to be reversed, neutralized, minimized, or mitigated.
* Prepares environmental career specialists to delve more deeply into research and applied strategies for ameliorating catastrophic climate outcomes and ecological disruptions
* Prepare non-specialists to participate competently in the democratic process, in the quest for effective amelioration at the level of public policy and personal conduct.
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