Goshen College’s Bible and Religion program is for those who feel called to explore faith more deeply, understand the church’s story, and apply their convictions in meaningful, real-world ways.
Courses
SUST 345 Ecol Ethics & Environ Movements
Credit Hours
3.00
Degree Level
Undergrad
This course introduces key debates in the field of environmental ethics by exploring how competing ideas about sustainability developed historically within movements to conserve, preserve, protect, and restore threatened environments. Students engage a series of cases centered around specific ecological problems, explore the environmental movement(s) that arose to address each problem, and consider the ethical claims and strategies the movements used to argue for and enact responses. The course orients students to the historical and contemporary landscape of environmentalism in the U.S. and beyond, and in the process introduces diverse paradigms of environmental ethics alongside a range of social/political strategies for sustainability praxis. Offered odd-year spring semesters.