Bioethics

Requirements

The minor in Bioethics prepares students to address issues of ethics and justice in patient-level and population-level approaches to the provision, promotion, and governance of health. Students who study bioethics develop valuable skills that are applicable in many healthcare and health policy professions. 

To earn a minor in Bioethics, students must complete a minimum of 16 credits, including:

• course Introduction to Ethics for Healthcare Professions (4)
  or course Introduction to Ethics (4) 
  or course Introduction to Ethics in Science and Engineering (4) 

• course  Clinical Ethics (4)

• course Public Health Ethics (4)

4 credits Chosen From:

• course Biology and Society (4) 

• course Introduction to Human Subjects Research I (4) 

• course Scientific Inquiry and Communication (4) 

• course Chemistry, Society Health (4) 

• course Health Communication (4) 

• course Mental Health Policy (4) 

• course Alcohol, Drugs and Society (4)

• course Public and Environmental Health (3) 

• course Sociology of Health and Medicine (4)

• course Ethics in Health Care (4) 

• course Nursing Leadership (2) 

• course Nursing Care of Communities and Populations (5) 

• course Nursing Capstone (5) 

• course Population Health (4) 

• course Professional Practice and Ethics in Nutrition (4) 

• course Social Determinants of Health (4) 

• course Global Health and Social Issues (4) 

• course Fact, Value, and Knowledge (4) 

• course Philosophy of Law (4) 

• course Philosophy of Sexuality (4) 

• course Ethical Theory (4) 

• course Ethics, Language and Reality (4) 

• course Political Philosophy (4)  

• course Philosophy of Crime, Policing and Punishment (4)  

• course Ethics Bowl Preparation and Competition (4) 

• course Public Policy and Health Care (4) 

• course Sociology of Mental Illness (4) 

• course Human Sexuality (4)

• course Sociology of Health and Medicine (4)  

• course  Death and Dying (4) 

• course Issues in Women’s Health (4) 

• course Issues in Women’s Health (4)  

• course Environmental Justice (4)

• course Population Health, Health Policy, and Healthcare Delivery (4) 

Applicable Majors

All Majors can declare this Minor.