Students will be able to articulate and critically engage with key issues in 
environmental ethics. An understanding of the application of environmental ethics to
scientific inquiry and decision making will be studied.  Communicating effectively
through writing and speech, relevant use of the computer, and critical thinking are
all stressed.  During the course the student should be improving in each of these
skill areas.

This course will cover such problems as:

I.   Population
II.  Animal rights
III. Environmental justice
IV.  The value of "nature" and "natural environments"