Using the work of forester and founder of wildlife ecology, Aldo Leopold, as our example, students will examine issues central to the field of environmental ethics. The course is divided into 8 units. One unit is devoted to developing writing skills. The other seven units concern the basic themes at issue in environmental ethics. These include a review of the principles at work in an ecological ethic, the Darwinian basis of this ethical theory, advances in ecological theory which threaten basic concepts at work in an ecological ethic, and a review of specific problems within environmental ethics, e.g., wilderness preservation, the idea of conservation, appraisals by underrepresented groups, etc.