Beth Jameson, BHA EHPP Concentration Advisor (BH 240A)

BHA Ethics, History, & Public Policy Concentration

(81 units minimum)

The BHA concentration in Ethics, History, & Public Policy (EHPP) prepares students to be leaders is a vital goal of colleges and universities in every democratic society. The intellectual challenges facing public and private sector leaders have expanded dramatically since the pioneering EHPP program began in 1996, but the need remains as great as ever for broadly educated, ethically sensitive, and technically skilled leaders.

EHPP prepares students to demonstrate sophistication and flexibility in their command of interdisciplinary knowledge; deep historical understanding of how modern-day policy problems have emerged and evolved; and clear, rational criteria for ethical and socially just decision making. The curriculum provides students with a strong humanistic foundation for developing such high-level, historically grounded, and ethically attuned leadership capacities. It also offers ample room for specialization in a wide range of policy areas in which the History and Philosophy departments have special expertise, e.g., medicine and public health, criminal justice, environment, technology, artificial intelligence (AI), gender, civil rights, immigration, and education.

Foundation Courses in History and Philosophy (2 courses, 18 units)

Choose one of the following three courses:

		Units
79-189	Democracy and History: Thinking Beyond the Self	9
79-248	U.S. Constitution & the Presidency	9
79-250	Voting Rights: An Introduction	9

Choose one of the following two courses:

80-130	Introduction to Ethics	9
80-330	Ethical Theory	9

Ethics and Policy Core (3 courses, 27 units)

Choose three of the courses below:
No more than one course may be taken at the 100 level and at least one course must be taken at the 300 level or above.

80-135	Introduction to Political Philosophy	9
80-136	Social Structure, Public Policy & Ethics	9
80-208	Against the Algorithm: Critical Thinking as a Way of Life	9
80-221	Philosophy of Social Science	9
80-234	Philosophy of Race and Gender	9
80-244	Environmental Ethics	9
80-245	Medical Ethics	9
80-249	AI, Society, and Humanity	9
80-305	Game Theory	9
80-306	Decision Theory	9
80-324	Philosophy of Economics	9
80-330	Ethical Theory	9
80-335	Social and Political Philosophy	9
80-336	Philosophy of Law	9
80-348	Health, Human Rights, and International Development	9
80-447	Seminar in Global Justice	9

History and Policy Core (3 courses, 27 units)

Choose three of the courses below:

79-145	Genocide and Weapons of Mass Destruction	9
79-175	Moneyball Nation: Data in American Life	9
79-178	Equality Under the Law	9
79-212	Jim Crow America	9
79-213	The American Railroad: Decline and Renaissance in the Age of Deregulation	6
79-215	Environmental Justice from Conservation to Climate Change	9
79-230	The Arab-Israeli Conflict and Peace Process Through 1948 to Present	9
79-234	Technology and Society	9
79-245	Capitalism and Individualism in American Culture	9
79-246	War, Genocide, and Gender in Modern Europe	9
79-248	U.S. Constitution & the Presidency	9
79-250	Voting Rights: An Introduction	9
79-260	Nazi Germany: A Practical History	9
79-270	Anti-Semitism Then and Now: Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Present	9
79-278	How (Not) to Change the World	9
79-289	Animal Planet: An Environmental History of People and Animals	9
79-290	The Slave Passage: From West Africa to the Americas	9
79-296	Religion in American Politics	6
79-300	History of U.S. Immigration Policy	9
79-302	Killer Robots? The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Drones and A.I. in War	9
79-320	Women, Politics, and Protest	9
79-321	Documenting Human Rights	9
79-329	Introduction to Queer Studies	9
79-330	Medicine and Society: Health, Healers, and Hospitals	9
79-331	Body Politics: Women and Health in America	9
79-343	Education, Democracy, and the Arts	9
79-360	Crime, Policing, and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives	9
79-380	Hostile Environments: The Politics of Pollution in Global Perspective	9

Foundation Courses in Law and Social Science (1 course, 9 units minimum)

Choose one of the courses below:

17-200	Ethics and Policy Issues in Computing	9
19-101	Introduction to Engineering and Public Policy	12
66-226	Law and Literature	9
70-332	Business, Society and Ethics	9
73-102	Principles of Microeconomics	9
73-103	Principles of Macroeconomics	9
84-104	Decision Processes in American Political Institutions	9
84-110	The Economics of Politics and Technology	9
84-352	Representation and Voting Rights	9
84-393	The US Congress: Legislative Progress or Paralysis?	9
84-402	Judicial Politics and Behavior	9
88-281	Topics in Law: 1st Amendment	9
88-284	Topics of Law: The Bill of Rights	9