Ethics and Public Policy Concentration

Undergraduate Concentration

The interdisciplinary ethics and public policy concentration can be taken in conjunction with any major at Clark. This concentration is particularly recommended for students who intend to pursue professional or career interests in policy-related fields such as law, government, public administration or health care.

For more information, please visit the Ethics and Public Policy Department’s website.

Concentration Requirements

The requirements for a concentration in ethics and public policy are designed to familiarize the student with the basic concepts and methods of both ethical analysis and policy analysis; to introduce the theoretical and methodological problems of both ethical analysis and policy analysis; and to ensure that the student engages in sustained analysis of particular ethical and public-policy issues at both an introductory and an advanced level.

At a minimum, the concentration in ethics and public policy requires six courses, distributed in the following manner:

Program Faculty

Arden Ali, Ph.D. - Director
Robert Boatright, Ph.D.
Michael Butler, Ph.D.
C. Wesley DeMarco, Ph.D.
Wiebke Deimling, Ph.D. 
Patrick G. Derr, Ph.D.
Jacqueline Geoghegan, Ph.D.
Deborah Merrill, Ph.D.
Will O’Brien, J.D., M.B.A.
Jie Park, Ph.D.
Samuel Ratick, Ph.D.
Srinivasan Sitaraman, Ph.D.
Rosalie Torres Stone, Ph.D.
Kristen Williams, Ph.D.

Courses

Courses offered within the last 2 Academic Years

• BLAW 262 - Business Ethics and Law
• ECON 258 - The Economics and Policy of Food
• EDUC 153 - Participatory (Action) Research with Youth
• EDUC 155 - Education and Social Policy
• GEOG 258 - Utopian Visions, Urban Realities: Planning Cities for the 21st Century
• GEOG 261 - Decision Methods for Environmental Management and Policy
• ID 125 - Tales from the Far Side: Contemporary Dilemmas in Development
• ID 265 - Global Issues in Education
• PHIL 105 - Personal Values
• PHIL 130 - Medical Ethics
• PHIL 131 - Environmental Ethics
• PHIL 132 - Social and Political Ethics
• PHIL 135 - Existentialism in Philosophy and Literature
• PHIL 220 - Theories of Ethics
• PHIL 270 - Philosophy of Law
• PSCI 069 - Introduction to International Relations
• PSCI 070 - Introduction to Comparative Politics
• PSCI 096 - Just and Unjust Wars
• PSCI 107 - Research Methods
• PSCI 120 - International Negotiation and Mediation
• PSCI 147 - World Order and Globalization
• PSCI 154 - Introduction to Public Policy in the United States
• PSCI 155 - Roots of Political Thought
• PSCI 157 - U.S. Environmental Politics
• PSCI 173 - Latin-American Politics
• PSCI 182 - International Security
• PSCI 204 - The American Presidency
• PSCI 207 - International Relations Theory
• PSCI 213 - Policy Analysis
• PSCI 216 - Comparative Environmental Politics
• PSCI 238 - U.S. Foreign Policy
• PSCI 250 - U.S. National Security
• PSCI 253 - U.S. Judicial Politics
• PSCI 255 - The Politics of U.S. Congress
• PSCI 268 - Peace and War
• PSCI 280 - Politics of Food and Drink
• PSCI 281 - Civil Wars in Comparative Perspective
• PSCI 286 - Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics - Capstone Seminar
• PSCI 289 - Advanced Topics in International Relations - Capstone Seminar
• SOC 180 - Aging and Society
• SOC 208 - Class, Status and Power
• SOC 241 - Sociology of Medicine
• SOC 265 - Activism, Protest, and Social Movements