Minor in applied ethics
Required:At least 3.0 units of the 6.0 units from the list of electives below must be at the 300 or 400 level.
No more than 6.0 units from any one department may count toward the Minor.
No application is required to receive a Minor in Applied Ethics. However, like any other degree program, you must declare the MAE with Academic Advising. For information on how to do this, please visit Declaring your Program. Also, please note that MAE electives will not automatically show up as fulfilling MAE requirements on CAPP Reports. Instead, staff in Advising must manually designate electives as fulfilling MAE degree requirements. Thus, students are strongly encouraged to consult with Advising as they fulfill their MAE degree requirements.
If you have any questions about the list of electives, contact the Advising Centre or the Applied Ethics Minor Coordinator, c/o Dept. of Philosophy.
Current Applied Ethics Minor Coordinator: Scott Woodcock
Eligible Electives for a Minor in Applied Ethics
The following courses can be taken as electives towards satisfaction of the requirements for a Minor in Applied Ethics. Last updated: June 2023.
Other courses, not listed here (e.g., directed readings courses in ethics or courses with variable content that in a given year place special emphasis on ethical issues), may also count as electives for the purposes of the Minor in Applied Ethics provided that the content of the course is appropriate, and that the MAE Coordinator approves the course as suitable.
Note that courses counting as electives toward a MAE cannot simultaneously count toward a student’s major degree. (This is a general university regulation that is not unique to the MAE, e.g., requirements for a minor in Humanities.) For further information about this prohibition on "double-counting," contact .
Please report any irregularities regarding this list to the MAE Coordinator, and note that not all courses on the list of eligible electives are offered every year. Students must check with the current academic calendar to ensure availability.
- Art History & Visual Studies
- AHVS 284 Indigenous Arts -Local Themes and Global Challenges
- AHVS 312 Gender, Identity and Film
- AHVS 370A Popular Film and Cultural Theory
- AHVS 383A Arts and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
- AHVS 384 Northwest Coast Indigenous Arts and Colonization
- AHVS 398A Art and Revolution I
- AHVS 398B Art and Revolution II
- Anthropology
- ANTH 302 Globalization, Health, and the Environment
- ANTH 336 Contemporary Indigenous Issues in Canada
- ANTH 365 Colonialism and Daily Life
- ANTH 366 Anthropology of Reproduction
- ANTH 372 Economic Underworlds and Globalization
- ANTH 402 Feminist Theory and Method in Anthropology
- ANTH 433 Ethnographic Approaches to Coast Salish Land, Law and Culture
- Biology
- Child and Youth Care
- CYC 230 Introduction to CYC Practice in Indigenous Contexts
- CYC 240 Ethical Decision-Making in Child and Youth Care Practice
- CYC 250 Law, Indigenous People and the TRC Calls to Action
- CYC 330 Applied Practice in Indigenous Contexts
- CYC 381 Leadership, Advocacy and Policy for the Early Years
- CYC 430 Research Practice in Indigenous Contexts
- CYC 471 Addictive Behaviours in Children, Youth and Families
- Curriculum and Instruction Studies
- EDCI 340 Media Activism, Social Justice, and Educational Change
- Economics
- ECON 112 Strategy, Conflict and Co-operation
- ECON 317 The Economics of Canadian Health Care
- ECON 318 Health Economics
- ECON 320 Economic Development
- ECON 325 Public Economics
- ECON 329 Development and Economics
- ECON 339 Economics of the Family
- ECON 381 Environmental Economics I (note: this course is cross-listed as ES 312)
- ECON 382 Natural Resource Economics I
- ECON 383 Climate Economics
- ECON 420 Theory of Economic Development
- ECON 423 Economics and Indigenous Nations
- ECON 437 Philosophical Problems in Contemporary Economics
- ECON 481 Environmental Economics II
- ECON 482 Natural Resource Economics II
- Environmental Restoration
- Environmental Studies
- ES 301 Political Ecology
- ES 302 Capitalism, Justice, and Sustainability
- ES 312 Environmental Economics (note: this course is cross-listed as ECON 381)
- ES 314 Philosophy and the Environment (note: this course is cross-listed as PHIL 333)
- ES 320 Conservation Biology
- ES 348 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
- ES 365 Climate and Society
- ES 399 Environmental Evidence in a Post-Truth Era
- ES 405 Climate, Energy and Politics
- ES 406 Alternative Economies for Social Change
- ES 417 Power, Difference, and Environmental Politics
- ES 423 Traditional Systems of Land and Resource Management
- ES 427 Colonization, Nature, and the Making of British Columbia
- ES 443 Climate Change and Biodiversity
- ES 446 Sustainable Fisheries
- Gender Studies
- GNDR 200 Popular Culture and Social Media
- GNDR 201 Gender, Food and Power
- GNDR 202 Globalization and Resistance
- GNDR 203 Indigenous Womxn in Canada
- GNDR 204 Gender, Health, Power and Resistance
- GNDR 206 Monstrous Women
- GNDR 207 Gender, Globalization and the Love Industry
- GNDR 302 Sex Work, Trafficking and Human Rights
- GNDR 305 Gender and International Human Rights
- GNDR 306 Gender and International Development
- GNDR 307 Sexuality and the Body in International Development
- GNDR 308 Indigeneity, Gender and Land
- GNDR 310 Indigenous Feminisms
- GNDR 321 The Medicalization of Sex
- GNDR 324 Gender, Nation and War
- GNDR 332 Race, Gender, and Power
- GNDR 333 Anti-Racist Feminisms and Democratic Futures
- GNDR 334 Bodies out of Bounds
- GNDR 335 Border Crossing, Migration and Gender
- GNDR 336 Transgender Theory
- GNDR 340 Indigenous Cinema Decolonizing the Screen
- Geography
- GEOG 209 Introduction to Environmental Management
- GEOG 303 Conservation and Ecology of Whales
- GEOG 304 Coastal Conservation
- GEOG 314 Global Environment Change and Human Response
- GEOG 332 Urban Development in the Global South
- GEOG 347B Geographies of Development
- GEOG 353 Coastal and Marine Management
- GEOG 357 Parks and Protected Areas
- GEOG 371 Water Resources Management
- GEOG 373 Applied Climatology
- GEOG 404 Space and Power
- GEOG 406 Sustainable Cities
- GEOG 407 Activism and Community-Based Planning
- GEOG 450 Environment and Sustainability in Practice
- GEOG 456 Wildlife Conservation
- GEOG 457 Marine Protected Areas
- Greek and Roman Studies
- Health Information Science
- History
- HSTR 306 Sex and Power in American History
- HSTR 309 Race, Inequality and the Origins of American Urban Crisis
- HSTR 325 Environmental History of British Columbia
- HSTR 327A Gender and Sexuality in Canada to 1920
- HSTR 327B Gender and Sexuality in Canada from 1920 to Present
- HSTR 328B Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada since 1850
- HSTR 328C Indigenous-Settler Relations in the United States since 1850
- HSTR 329A Race, Racism and Ethnicity in Canada to 1900
- HSTR 329B Race, Racism and Ethnicity in Canada since 1900
- HSTR 330D Drink and Social Control in Canada
- HSTR 375 History of Decolonization in Asia and Africa
- HSTR 376D The Women of Latin America
- HSTR 378 History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- HSTR 379 Western Imperialism in the Middle East and North Africa
- HSTR 385C History of Sexuality
- HSTR 427A Decolonizing Settler Societies
- HSTR 485A Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Since 1800
- Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- Indigenous Education
- Indigenous Governance
- Indigenous Studies
- Nursing (restricted to Nursing students unless special permission granted)
- Pacific and Asian Studies
- Philosophy
- PHIL 235 Ethics of Violence, War and Terrorism
- PHIL 236 Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy
- PHIL 239 Philosophy and Feminism
- PHIL 330 Professional and Business Ethics
- PHIL 331 Biomedical Ethics
- PHIL 333 Philosophy and the Environment (note: this course is cross-listed with ES 314)
- PHIL 336 Philosophy of Law
- PHIL 339 Theories of Justice
- PHIL 431 Advanced Biomedical Ethics
- PHIL 433 Advanced Social and Political Philosophy
- PHIL 436 Advanced Philosophy of Law
- Political Science
- POLI 217 Global Development
- POLI 263 The Politics of Indigenous Peoples
- POLI 305 The Politics of Diversity
- POLI 309 Democracy and Disobedience
- POLI 313A US Politics: Parties, Elections and Social Movements
- POLI 313B US Politics: Public Policy, the Constitution and Civil Liberties
- POLI 327 Political Economy in the Global South
- POLI 328 Gender and International Relations
- POLI 335 Gender and Politics
- POLI 341 The United Nations and Global Issues
- POLI 345 Ethics in International Relations
- POLI 348 International Security
- POLI 357 Canadian Environmental Politics
- POLI 363 Indigenous Politics in Canada
- POLI 367 The Politics of Race in Canada
- POLI 370 The Politics of Surveillance
- POLI 380 Communication and Politics
- POLI 381 Politics of Mass Media in Latin America
- POLI 383 Global Indigenous Nationalisms
- POLI 385 Gender, Race and Power
- POLI 456 The Politics of the Internet
- Psychology
- Religion, Culture and Society
- Sociology
- SOCI 202 Constructing Social Problems
- SOCI 215 Class and Social Inequality
- SOCI 220 Media and Contemporary Society
- SOCI 235 Racialization and Ethnicity
- SOCI 281 Sociology of Genders
- SOCI 305B Families and Social Change
- SOCI 307 Moral Panics
- SOCI 312 White-Collar Crime
- SOCI 313 Sociology of Law
- SOCI 316 Social Movements
- SOCI 318 Social Change
- SOCI 327 International Perspectives on Inequities in Health and Health Care
- SOCI 345 Sociology of Mental Health
- SOCI 355 The Corporation, Capitalism, and Globalization
- SOCI 382 Sociology of Sexualities
- SOCI 383 Feminisms in Theory and Practice
- SOCI 384 Colonialism, Postcoloniality and Indigenous Resurgence
- SOCI 430A Issues in Racialization, Ethnicity and Decolonization
- SOCI 435 Issues in Gender, Sexuality and Trans Communities
- SOCI 436 Issues in Sociology and Social Justice
- SOCI 437 Issues in Environmental Sociology and Climate Change
- Social Work
- SOCW 350A Social Work, Social Justice and the Law
- SOCW 354 Introduction to Indigenous Perspectives on Social Work Practice
- SOCW 356 Global Approaches to Human Development and Social Justice
- SOCW 391 Indigenous Approaches to Healing and Helping
- SOCW 451 Indigenous Policy Analysis in Social Work
- SOCW 469 Re-defining Abilities in the Context of Theory and Practice
- SOCW 471 Substance Use Theory, Policy and Practice
- SOCW 475 Critical Practice in Child Welfare Contexts
- SOCW 476 Critical Policy Analysis in Child Welfare Contexts
- SOCW 491 Integration of Indigenous Approaches to Healing and Helping
- SOCW 492 Protecting Indigenous Children
- Software Engineering
- SENG 401 Social and Professional Issues
- Technology and Society