2023 Fall

POLSCI 124C 001 - LEC 001

Ethics and Justice in International Affairs

Amy Gurowitz

Aug 23, 2023 - Dec 08, 2023

Tu, Th

03:30 pm - 04:59 pm

Evans 10

Class #:24095

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Charles & Louise Travers Dept of Political Science

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0

Enrolled: 162

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 162

Waitlist Max: 0

Open Reserved Seats:0

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 8 to 7 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 to 2 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Should nations intervene in other countries to prevent human rights abuses or famine? On what principles should immigration be based? Should wealthy states aid poorer states, and if so, how much? Who should pay for global environmental damage? Answers to these moral questions depend to a great degree on who we believe we have an obligation to: Ourselves? Nationals of our country? Residents of our country? Everyone in the world equally? We will examine different traditions of moral thought including skeptics, communitarians, cosmopolitans, and use these traditions as tools to make reasoned judgments about difficult moral problems in world politics.