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.

Program Faculty

Margarete Arndt, D.B.A.
Robert Boatright, Ph.D.
Halina Brown, Ph.D.

Michael Butler, Ph.D.
John L. Crawley, M.S., J.D.
Judith DeCew, Ph.D. - Director
Patrick Derr, Ph.D.
Susan Hanson, Ph.D.
Douglas Johnson, Ph.D.
Bruce London, Ph.D.
Deborah Merrill, Ph.D.
Mark Miller, Ph.D.
Edward J. Ottensmeyer, Ph.D.
Gary Overvold, Ph.D.
Colin Polsky, Ph.D.
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Robert Ross, Ph.D.
Nathaniel C. Seale, M.Ed.
Kristen Williams, Ph.D.
Walter Wright, Ph.D.

Courses

• ECON 216 - Tax and Debt Finance/Lecture, Workshop
• EDUC 155 - Education and Social Policy
• EN 265 - Risk Analysis: Policy and Methods/1/2 credit/Seven week module
• GEOG 105 - Keeping of Animals: Patterns of Use and Abuse
• GEOG 226 - Who Fears What and Why: Social Theories of Environmental Risks and Hazards
• GEOG 258 - Utopian Visions, Urban Realities: Planning Cities for the 21st Century
• ID 125 - Tales from the Far Side: Third World Development and Underdevelopment in the Age of Globalization
• IDCE 352 - Conflict in Sudan and the Horn of Africa
• MGMT 262 - Business Ethics and Law
• PHIL 105 - Personal Values
• PHIL 108 - Privacy Protection In Law & Ethics
• PHIL 130 - Medical Ethics
• PHIL 131 - Environmental Ethics
• PHIL 132 - Social and Political Ethics
• PHIL 220 - Theories of Ethics
• PHIL 221 - Social and Political Philosophy
• PHIL 228 - Contemporary Moral Theory
• PHIL 270 - Philosophy of Law
• PHIL 272 - Advanced Issues in Medical Ethics
• PSCI 070 - Introduction to Comparative Politics
• PSCI 096 - Just and Unjust Wars
• PSCI 107 - Research Methods
• PSCI 147 - World Order and Globalization
• PSCI 154 - Introduction To Public Policy in the United States
• PSCI 155 - Roots of Political Thought
• PSCI 157 - The Politics of U.S. Environmental Issues
• PSCI 173 - Introduction to Latin-American Politics
• 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 281 - Civil Wars in Comparative Perspective
• PSCI 282 - Housing Policies and Politics - Capstone Seminar
• PSCI 286 - Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics - Capstone Seminar
• SOC 180 - Aging and Society
• SOC 200 - Class, Status and Power
• SOC 232 - Population, Environment and Development
• SOC 241 - Sociology of Medicine
• SOC 265 - Social Movements: Quest for Justice

Program 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: