The Bioethics secondary emphasis will prepare students in Biology, Health Professions, and related areas, to resolve perplexing yet inescapable ethical dilemmas through the acquisition of essential conceptual and ethical frameworks
The Bioethcis secondary emphasis form is signed by the chair of the Philosophy Department.
Bioethics secondary Required courses (11 credits)
| Course Number and Title | Credits | Prerequisites | Distribution |
|
PL 105 Intro. to Logic OR PL 208 Symbolic Logic |
3 | FYC | Both H,WK-FR |
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PL235 Ethics of Health Care OR Connections Course (in development) |
4 | FYC | TBD |
| PL 250 Science and Human Values OR PL 260 Philosophy of Science | 4 | FYC | Both H, CTGES; PL 260 is WK-H; PL 260 is under review for WK-H designation |
Bioethics secondary Elective courses (7 credits)
| Course Number and Title | Credits | Prerequisites | Distribution |
| CA 270 Infectious Disease and Society | 3 | FYC | CA,CTGES,WK-SP |
| HS 313 Disease, Medicine and Empire | 3 | FYC | CA,I,H,CTGES |
| HS 314 Medieval Medicine | 3 | FYC | IC,CTGES |
| IC 203 Genomics, Ethics and Society | 4 | FYC | IC |
| PL 205 Ancient Philosophy | 4 | FYC | H,CW |
| PL 270 Ethical Theory | 4 | FYC | SW-ER under review |
| PL 304 Existentialism | 4 | FYC, one prior PL course | H, CW |
| RU 275 Medicine and Literature | 4 | FYC | CA,I,H,CW,CTGES,SW-ER |