Ethical and Civic Values
Students develop their capacity to think carefully and critically about how to make and justify private and public decisions.
Ethical and Civic Values (FC-VALUES) is a required Focus Capacity course in the IDEAs in Action curriculum.
A single course may be used to fulfill only one Focus Capacity requirement (not including lab).
Approved Courses
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| AAAD 102 | 
Introduction to Media in Africa | 3 |
| AAAD 220 |
Media and Democracy in Africa | 3 |
| AAAD 461 |
Race, Gender, and Activism in Cuba | 3 |
| AMST 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Birth and Death in the United States H | 3 |
| AMST 220 |
On the Question of the Animal: Contemporary Animal Studies | 3 |
| AMST 225 |
Comedy and Ethics H | 3 |
| AMST 259 |
Tobacco and America | 3 |
| AMST 269 |
Mating and Marriage in America | 3 |
| AMST 275 |
Food and American Culture | 3 |
| AMST 277 |
America's Role in the Global Environment | 3 |
| AMST 287 |
Introduction to American Legal Education | 3 |
| AMST 315 |
Privacy and Surveillance in America | 3 |
| AMST 317 |
Adoption in America | 3 |
| ANTH 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Forced Out and Fenced In: Ethnography of Latinx Immigration | 3 |
| ANTH 194 |
Anthropology and Community Development | 3 |
| ANTH 278 |
Women in Science | 3 |
| ANTH 280 |
Anthropology of War and Peace | 3 |
| ANTH 424 |
Ritual, Festival, and Public Culture | 3 |
| ASIA 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Kung-Fu: The Concept of Heroism in Chinese Culture | 3 |
| ASIA 167 |
Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in South Asia | 3 |
| ASIA 233 |
Drugs, Sex, and Sovereignty in East Asia, 1800-1945 | 3 |
| ASIA 285 |
Monks, Magic, & Meditation: Theravada Buddhism Across Space and Time | 3 |
| ASIA 300 |
The Buddhist Tradition: India, Nepal, and Tibet | 3 |
| ASIA 333 |
The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined | 3 |
| ASIA 383 |
The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined--Experiential | 3 |
| ASIA 427 |
Cold War Culture in East Asia: Transnational and Intermedial Connections | 3 |
| ASIA 587 |
Islam and Sexual Diversity | 3 |
| BUSI 463 |
Corporate Environmental Stewardship | 3 |
| BUSI 475 |
Nonprofit Leadership: Strategies and Practices | 3 |
| CHIN 238 |
From Martial Arts to Street Dance: Rebellion with Chinese Characteristics | 3 |
| CHIN 247 |
Indigenous Spiritualities in Literatures of China and Taiwan H | 3 |
| CHIN 356 |
Chinese Environmental Literature | 3 |
| CHIN 463 |
Narrative Ethics in Modern China | 3 |
| CHIN 475 |
Confucianism: Origin, History, and Contemporary Relevance | 3 |
| CHIN 476 |
Daoism: Origin, History, and Contemporary Relevance | 3 |
| CHIN 525 |
Ancient Philosophers and Their Modern Reincarnation | 3 |
| CLAR 250 |
Who Owns the Past?: Archaeology, Ethics, and Politics H | 3 |
| CLAS 253 |
Pericles and Athens H | 3 |
| CLAS 271 |
Classical Rhetoric and American Democracy | 3 |
| CLAS 362 |
Greek Tragedy H | 3 |
| CLAS 415 |
Roman Law H | 3 |
| CMPL 238 |
From Martial Arts to Street Dance: Rebellion with Chinese Characteristics | 3 |
| CMPL 247 |
Indigenous Spiritualities in Literatures of China and Taiwan H | 3 |
| CMPL 527 |
Cold War Culture in East Asia: Transnational and Intermedial Connections | 3 |
| COMM 170 |
Rhetoric and Public Issues | 3 |
| COMM 223 |
Small Group Communication | 3 |
| COMM 327 |
Constructive Communication Conflict Across Contexts | 3 |
| COMM 475 |
Fostering Civil Discourse: Reasoning Together for Common Good | 3 |
| COMM 527 |
Organizational Ethics | 3 |
| COMP 380 |
Technology, Ethics, & Culture H | 3 |
| COMP 388 |
The Internet: Studies and Stories | 3 |
| DATA 120 |
Ethics of AI and Societal Decision Making H | 3 |
| DATA 520 |
Research-Methods for Socially Responsible AI: An Ethical Expedition | 3 |
| DRAM 388 |
Theatre, Law, and American Values | 3 |
| ECON 384 |
Gateway to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics H | 3 |
| ECON 698 |
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: Capstone Course | 3 |
| EDUC 418 |
Ethics of Care for the Hospitalized Child and Family | 3 |
| EDUC 508 |
Equity, Leadership, and You | 3 |
| EDUC 526 |
Ethics and Education: From Global Problems to Classroom Dilemmas | 3 |
| ENEC 325 |
Water Resource Management for Food, Energy, and Health H | 3-4 |
| ENEC 350 |
Environmental Law and Policy | 3 |
| ENEC 368 |
Living Things, Wilderness, and Ecosystems: An Introduction to Environmental Ethics H | 3 |
| ENEC 463 |
Corporate Environmental Stewardship | 3 |
| ENGL 193 |
Introduction to Law and Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 305 |
Advanced Legal Communication | 3 |
| ENGL 385 |
Literature and Law | 3 |
| ENGL 488 |
Critical Security Studies | 3 |
| FOLK 424 |
Ritual, Festival, and Public Culture | 3 |
| FREN 150 |
Globalization and the French-Speaking World | 3 |
| FREN 356 |
Littérature et philosophie | 3 |
| GEOG 124 |
Feminist Geographies | 3 |
| GEOG 228 |
Urban Geography | 3 |
| GEOG 232 |
Agriculture, Food, and Society | 3 |
| GEOG 428 |
Global Cities: Space, Power, and Identity in the Built Environment | 3 |
| GEOG 429 |
Urban Political Geography: Durham, NC | 3 |
| GEOG 543 |
Qualitative Methods in Geography | 3 |
| GERM 245 |
Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud | 3 |
| GERM 255 |
The Twilight of the World: Ecological Crises in German Literature and Film | 3 |
| GERM 265 |
Hitler in Hollywood: Cinematic Representations of Nazi Germany | 3 |
| GERM 283 |
Freedom, Terror, and Identity: Modern Philosophy from Kant to Arendt | 3 |
| GERM 444 |
The Origins of Radical Thought | 3 |
| GERM 465 |
German Guilt, Suffering and, Trauma | 3 |
| GERM 560 |
20th-Century German Philosophy and Modern Youth Cultures | 3 |
| GLBL 320 |
Peacemaking within Alaska - Challenges to Apology, Forgiveness and Reconciliation | 3 |
| GSLL 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Intensity, Vitality, Ecstasy: Affects in Literature, Film, and Philosophy H | 3 |
| GSLL 225 |
Popular and Pious: Early Modern Jewish Literature | 3 |
| HIST 310 |
The French Revolution | 3 |
| HIST 345 |
Dictators and Democracy: Autocracy and "the People" from Antiquity to Today | 3 |
| HIST 382 |
The History of the Civil Rights Movement H | 3 |
| HNUR 407 |
South Asian Society and Culture | 3 |
| HNUR 411 |
Health and Medicine in South Asia | 3 |
| HPM 510 |
Introduction to Health Law and Ethics | 3 |
| IDST 124I |
Pandemics: Ethics, Literatures, and Cultures | 3 |
| IDST 128I |
Never in Polite Company: Talking about Religion and Politics in Public | 3 |
| INLS 384 |
Information and Computer Ethics | 3 |
| ITAL 320 |
Italian Cities and Cultures: History, Power, and Ecology | 3 |
| ITAL 374 |
Italian Ecofiction in Global Perspective | 3 |
| ITAL 385 |
Italian Landscapes: Italy in the UNESCO World Heritage List | 3 |
| ITAL 388 |
Environmental Issues in Italian Literature and Film | 3 |
| ITAL 525 |
Italo Calvino in English | 3 |
| ITAL 571 |
Primo Levi in English | 3 |
| JAPN 375 |
The Culture of Modern, Imperial Japan, 1900-1945 | 3 |
| JWST 100 |
Introduction to Jewish Studies | 3 |
| JWST 103 |
Understanding the Bible: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament H | 3 |
| JWST 106 |
Judaism in the Time of Jesus | 3 |
| JWST 224 |
Modern Jewish Thought H | 3 |
| JWST 225 |
Popular and Pious: Early Modern Jewish Literature | 3 |
| JWST 230 |
Judaism and Popular Culture | 3 |
| JWST 420 |
Post-Holocaust Ethics and Theology H | 3 |
| JWST 503 |
Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls H | 3 |
| JWST 603 |
The Bible and the History of the Self | 3 |
| KOR 150 |
History, Memory, and Reality in Contemporary Korea | 3 |
| LING 225 |
Busting Language Myths | 3 |
| MEJO 141 |
Media Ethics | 3 |
| MEJO 341 |
Introduction to Media Law: Advertising, Public Relations, and Strategic Communication Focus | 3 |
| MNGT 223 |
Small Group Communication | 3 |
| MUSC 291 |
Music and Politics | 3 |
| NAVS 402 |
Naval Leadership and Ethics | 3 |
| NURS 302 |
Research, Ethics, and Innovation: Carolina Core II | 3 |
| PHIL 51 |
First-Year Seminar: Who Was Socrates? | 3 |
| PHIL 55 |
First-Year Seminar: Paradoxes | 3 |
| PHIL 57 |
First-Year Seminar: Race and Affirmative Action | 3 |
| PHIL 59 |
First-Year Seminar: Proofs of the Existence of God H | 3 |
| PHIL 62 |
First-Year Seminar: Philosophy with Children | 3 |
| PHIL 66 |
First-Year Seminar: Ethics: Theoretical and Practical | 3 |
| PHIL 68 |
First-Year Seminar: Moral Life H | 3 |
| PHIL 70 |
First-Year Seminar: Gateway to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics | 3 |
| PHIL 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Evil | 3 |
| PHIL 76 |
First-Year Seminar: Is Free Will an Illusion? H | 3 |
| PHIL 80 |
First-Year Seminar: Short Stories and Contemporary Social Problems | 3 |
| PHIL 86 |
First-Year Seminar: Persons and Identity | 3 |
| PHIL 101 |
Introduction to Philosophy: Central Problems, Great Minds, Big Ideas H | 3 |
| PHIL 102 |
Introduction to Philosophy: Central Problems, Great Minds, Big Ideas | 3 |
| PHIL 110 |
Philosophical Texts that Changed the World: An Introduction to Philosophy through Great Works H | 3 |
| PHIL 112 |
Making Sense of Ourselves H | 3 |
| PHIL 113 |
Philosophical Texts that Changed the World: An Introduction To Philosophy Through Great Works | 3 |
| PHIL 134 |
Reason, Faith, and God: Philosophy of Western Religion H | 3 |
| PHIL 143 |
AI and the Future of Humanity: Philosophical Issues about Technology and Human Survival H | 3 |
| PHIL 160 |
Virtue, Value, and Happiness: An Introduction to Moral Theory H | 3 |
| PHIL 161 |
Virtue, Value, and Happiness: An Introduction to Moral Theory | 3 |
| PHIL 163 |
Practical Ethics: Moral Reasoning and How We Live H | 3 |
| PHIL 164 |
Morality and Business | 3 |
| PHIL 165 |
Bioethics H | 3 |
| PHIL 170 |
Liberty, Rights, and Responsibilities: Introduction to Social Ethics and Political Thought H | 3 |
| PHIL 175 |
Philosophical Foundations of American Democracy | 3 |
| PHIL 180 |
Philosophy of Humor | 3 |
| PHIL 224 |
Existential Philosophy and the Meaning(lessness) of Life H | 3 |
| PHIL 261 |
Ethics in Action | 3 |
| PHIL 265 |
Ethics, Politics, and Technology | 3 |
| PHIL 266 |
Not All Fun and Games: Ethics of Sports | 3 |
| PHIL 272 |
The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense | 3 |
| PHIL 273 |
Justice, Rights, and the Common Good: Philosophical Perspectives on Social and Economic Issues H | 3 |
| PHIL 274 |
Race, Racism, and Social Justice: African-American Political Philosophy H | 3 |
| PHIL 275 |
Moral and Philosophical Issues of Gender in Society H | 3 |
| PHIL 276 |
Ideology, Capitalism, and Critique | 3 |
| PHIL 280 |
Morality, Law, and Justice: Issues in Legal Philosophy H | 3 |
| PHIL 285 |
Moral and Philosophical Issues in Education H | 3 |
| PHIL 292 |
Field Work in Philosophy: Introducing Philosophy in Primary and Secondary Schools | 3 |
| PHIL 294 |
Philosophy across the Lifespan | 3 |
| PHIL 360 |
Major Developments in Ethics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives H | 3 |
| PHIL 362 |
Contemporary Ethical Theory H | 3 |
| PHIL 364 |
Ethics and Economics | 3 |
| PHIL 368 |
Living Things, Wilderness, and Ecosystems: An Introduction to Environmental Ethics H | 3 |
| PHIL 370 |
Authority, Freedom, and Rights: Advanced Political Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 381 |
Philosophy and Film H | 3 |
| PHIL 384 |
Gateway to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics H | 3 |
| PHIL 392 |
Ethics Research Seminar for Undergraduates | 3 |
| PHIL 426 |
Nietzsche | 3 |
| PHIL 460 |
History of Moral Philosophy | 3 |
| PHIL 464 |
Moral Responsibility | 3 |
| PHIL 698 |
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: Capstone Course | 3 |
| PLAN 247 |
Solving Urban Problems | 3 |
| PLAN 428 |
Global Cities: Space, Power, and Identity in the Built Environment | 3 |
| PLCY 71 |
First-Year Seminar: Justice and Inequality H | 3 |
| PLCY 320 |
Peacemaking within Alaska - Challenges to Apology, Forgiveness and Reconciliation | 3 |
| PLCY 340 |
Justice in Public Policy H | 3 |
| PLCY 355 |
Restorative Justice | 3 |
| PLCY 360 |
State and Local Politics | 3 |
| PLCY 362 |
Ethics and Food Policy | 3 |
| PLCY 364 |
Ethics and Economics | 3 |
| POLI 52 |
First-Year Seminar: Friendship in Political Thought H | 3 |
| POLI 74 |
First-Year Seminar: Introduction to Constitutional Conflicts | 3 |
| POLI 75 |
First-Year Seminar: Thinking about Law | 3 |
| POLI 100 |
American Democracy in Changing Times H | 3 |
| POLI 270 |
Classical Political Thought H | 3 |
| POLI 271 |
Modern Political Thought H | 3 |
| POLI 272 |
The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense | 3 |
| POLI 275 |
Nationalism, Immigration and the Politics of Identity H | 3 |
| POLI 276 |
Major Issues in Political Theory H | 3 |
| POLI 279 |
American Political Thought Through the Civil War H | 3 |
| POLI 280 |
American Political Thought After the Civil War H | 3 |
| POLI 384 |
Gateway to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics H | 3 |
| POLI 474 |
Global Justice | 3 |
| POLI 475 |
Environmental Political Theory | 3 |
| POLI 698 |
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: Capstone Course | 3 |
| PWAD 272 |
The Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense | 3 |
| PWAD 280 |
Anthropology of War and Peace | 3 |
| PWAD 283 |
Freedom, Terror, and Identity: Modern Philosophy from Kant to Arendt | 3 |
| PWAD 320 |
Peacemaking within Alaska - Challenges to Apology, Forgiveness and Reconciliation | 3 |
| PWAD 363 |
Ethical Issues in Intelligence and National Security | 3 |
| PWAD 427 |
Cold War Culture in East Asia: Transnational and Intermedial Connections | 3 |
| PWAD 481 |
Religion, Fundamentalism, and Nationalism | 3 |
| PWAD 484 |
Critical Security Studies | 3 |
| RELI 67 |
First-Year Seminar: Nature/Culture/Self-Identity: Religion in the Construction of Social Life | 3 |
| RELI 77 |
First-Year Seminar: Martyrs and Warriors: Religion and the Problem of Violence | 3 |
| RELI 85 |
First-Year Seminar: Sex, Marriage, and Family in Religion | 3 |
| RELI 101 |
Introduction to Religious Studies | 3 |
| RELI 102 |
World Religions | 3 |
| RELI 103 |
Understanding the Bible: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament H | 3 |
| RELI 106 |
Judaism in the Time of Jesus | 3 |
| RELI 108 |
Classic Jewish Texts: From Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls to Kabbalah and Hassidism | 3 |
| RELI 121 |
Introduction to Religion and Culture H | 3 |
| RELI 122 |
Introduction to Philosophical Approaches to Religion H | 3 |
| RELI 123 |
Introduction to Jewish Studies | 3 |
| RELI 125 |
Heaven and Hell | 3 |
| RELI 126 |
Reason, Faith, and God: Philosophy of Western Religion H | 3 |
| RELI 132 |
Religion and Global Justice | 3 |
| RELI 135 |
Religion, Ethics, and Technology H | 3 |
| RELI 138 |
Religious Freedom | 3 |
| RELI 163 |
Critical Issues in Western Religious Thought | 3 |
| RELI 185 |
Women/Gender/Islam H | 3 |
| RELI 220 |
Religion and Medicine H | 3 |
| RELI 222 |
Modern Western Religious Thought | 3 |
| RELI 224 |
Modern Jewish Thought H | 3 |
| RELI 226 |
Human Animals in Religion and Ethics | 3 |
| RELI 230 |
Judaism and Popular Culture | 3 |
| RELI 231 |
The Bible in America | 3 |
| RELI 233 |
Religion and Violence | 3 |
| RELI 244 |
Gender and Sexuality in Western Christianity H | 3 |
| RELI 247 |
Uncertain Truths: Conspiracy Theories, Aliens, and Secret Societies in America | 3 |
| RELI 248 |
Introduction to American Islam H | 3 |
| RELI 266 |
Medieval and Renaissance Christian Cultures | 3 |
| RELI 283 |
The Buddhist Tradition: India, Nepal, and Tibet | 3 |
| RELI 285 |
Monks, Magic, & Meditation: Theravada Buddhism Across Space and Time | 3 |
| RELI 324 |
Religion and the Human: Interrogating Individuality | 3 |
| RELI 338 |
Religion in American Law | 3 |
| RELI 365 |
Studies in Christian Theologies and Theologians | 3 |
| RELI 383 |
The Mahabharata: Remembered and Reimagined--Experiential | 3 |
| RELI 415 |
Teaching the Bible in Public Education | 3 |
| RELI 420 |
Post-Holocaust Ethics and Theology H | 3 |
| RELI 424 |
Gender Theory and the Study of Religion | 3 |
| RELI 426 |
The Sacrifice of Abraham H | 3 |
| RELI 430 |
Dimensions of Evil | 3 |
| RELI 438 |
Religion, Nature, and Environment H | 3 |
| RELI 450 |
Sexuality in Jewish Tradition and History | 3 |
| RELI 480 |
Modern Muslim Literatures | 3 |
| RELI 481 |
Religion, Fundamentalism, and Nationalism | 3 |
| RELI 503 |
Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls H | 3 |
| RELI 522 |
19th-Century Critiques of Religion | 3 |
| RELI 530 |
Genealogies of Religion | 3 |
| RELI 580 |
African American Islam | 3 |
| RELI 587 |
Islam and Sexual Diversity | 3 |
| RELI 603 |
The Bible and the History of the Self | 3 |
| RELI 620 |
Feminism and Religion | 3 |
| SCLL 85 |
First-Year Seminar: What Does it Mean to be a Good Citizen? | 3 |
| SCLL 102 |
Pursuing The Good Life | 3 |
| SCLL 103 |
Seeking the Just Society | 3 |
| SCLL 132 |
Philosophy of Education | 3 |
| SCLL 145 |
The Family in Political Thought | 3 |
| SCLL 150 |
Foundations of American Civic Life H | 3 |
| SCLL 160 |
The Moral Economy | 3 |
| SCLL 215 |
The Politics of Comedy and Tragedy | 3 |
| SCLL 237 |
Left, Right, Center | 3 |
| SCLL 240 |
Free Speech, Fanaticism, and Censorship | 3 |
| SCLL 250 |
Democracy-Ancient and Modern | 3 |
| SCLL 270 |
Winning with Words: Democratic Rhetoric | 3 |
| SPHG 429 |
Public Health, Entrepreneurship, and Food Systems in Southeast Asia H | 3 |
| STOR 323 |
Ethics of Machine Learning in Society | 3 |
| WGST 64 |
Plantation Lullabies: Literature by and about African American Women | 3 |
| WGST 167 |
Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in South Asia | 3 |
| WGST 235 |
Motherhood: Politics and Representation | 3 |
| WGST 244 |
Gender and Sexuality in Western Christianity H | 3 |
| WGST 275 |
Moral and Philosophical Issues of Gender in Society H | 3 |
| WGST 278 |
Women in Science | 3 |
| WGST 281 |
Gender and Global Change | 3 |
| WGST 368 |
Women of Color in Contemporary United States Social Movements | 3 |
| WGST 393 |
Internship in Women's and Gender Studies | 3 |
| WGST 424 |
Gender Theory and the Study of Religion | 3 |
| WGST 450 |
Sexuality in Jewish Tradition and History | 3 |
| H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
