Revised Outcomes from 220 MCO
Course Outcomes/Learning Objectives:
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Students will be able to apply key schools of ethical thinking to environmental issues.
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Students will be able to identify and discuss human rights instruments and norms that have been
applied to environmental concerns.
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(omit?) Students will be able to discuss the place of human rights norms within the larger context of
ethical thinking.
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Students will become familiar with the history and emergence of the idea of human rights as ethical
and legal norms and with key documents, institutions, international human rights commissions and
courts.
Explore how personal, political and corporate decisions that impact the environment also have
implications for human rights.
Students will synthesize information from the course to analyze and critique current ethical
theories and human rights as both causes and solutions to current environmental issues that
impact human (and all) life.
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THIS FOR LAST PROJECT? - Students will be able to research a specific environmental cause or
situation and analyze ways in which human rights norms and instruments can apply to that
situation.