Philosophy 1320

Ethics and Society

CRN 80060

TCCN: PHIL 2306

Study of ethics, its recent focus on social problems, and new fields of inquiry, including environmental ethics, ethics in business, professions, technology and sport. Also such global issues as poverty, minority rights, and stem cell research. Emphasis on development and application of principles of critical thinking and moral reasoning.

3 Credit Hours. 3 Lecture Contact Hours. 0 Lab Contact Hours.

This course has an enrollment period of six months.

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Course Information

  • Structure:
    • 10 Modules
    • Required work: readings, 10 lesson assignments, 10 lesson quizzes
    • Students in this course may not submit an assignment before any previously submitted assignment has been graded and returned. Students may submit no more than two assignments each week.
  • Required Materials -- Enrolled TXST Students: 
    • If you are an enrolled Texas State University student, you can complete this course without purchasing additional course materials such as books or online subscriptions.
    • Students are required to watch multiple videos.
      • Videos will always have a free option.
      •  For some videos, the course provides multiple options, some of which can only be accessed through services like Amazon Video and Netflix.
  • Required Materials -- Non-TXST Students: 
    • If you are not an enrolled Texas State University student (only taking correspondence courses), most course materials are available free of charge, but you will need to purchase or obtain the following course materials:
    • Killing Us Softly 4 video
      • As of October 2025, the cost to stream this video for 48 hours was $5.
    • Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction, 1st edition. ISBN-13: 978-1138484436
      • As of October 2025, the cost of this  book was $29 for a new book.
  • Students are required to watch additional videos, which will have a free option.
  • For some videos, the course provides multiple options, some of which can only be accessed through services like Amazon Video and Netflix.
  • Technical Requirements:
    • Access to Canvas
    • Browser capable of viewing videos on YouTube / Amazon.com / Netflix
    • Software to produce documents in some format other than .pages (acceptable formats include .odf, .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, .pdf, etc.)
  • Instructor: Bob Fischer, Ph.D.
  • Tuition: For current course tuition, visit the Correspondence Costs page.

Acquiring Course Materials

This course uses freely available course materials, which means students have no textbook or learning material costs.

If you have difficulty accessing course materials after enrolling in the course and following the directions to access the course materials from within the course, please contact Online and Extended Programs at corrstudy@txstate.edu.


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