Bioethics Certificate (Undergraduate)

The bioethics certificate is designed to equip students for facing complex moral questions related to healthcare and the life sciences by fostering habits of ethical reflection and character formation. The certificate requires 12 credit hours. Through the certificate, students will encounter the principal approaches to bioethics, examine major moral issues that arise in relevant fields, and practice ethical reasoning through engagement with significant historical and contemporary cases.

Requirements

12 Hours, including:

PHIL 3040 - Bioethics Credit Hours: 2, 3
(This course must be completed for 3 hours)

6 hours from Philosophical Ethics:

PHIL 3030 - Ethics Credit Hours: 3
PHIL 4041 - Bioethics: Beginning of Life Credit Hours: 3
PHIL 4042 - Bioethics: End of Life Credit Hours: 3
PHIL 4043 - Bioethics: Health and Disease Credit Hours: 3
PHIL 4044 - Bioethics: Professional Ethics Credit Hours: 3
PHIL 4045 - Bioethics: Biotechnologies Credit Hours: 3

3 hours from Applied Ethics:

CJ 3260 - Drugs Alcohol and Crime Credit Hours: 3
FCS 3230/3230L - Lifespan Human Development Credit Hours: 3
FCS 4260 - Human Sexuality Credit Hours: 3
HIST 3158 - History of Medicine Credit Hours: 3
NURS 3010 - Social Determinants of Health Credit Hours: 3
NURS 4130 - Health Care Missions Credit Hours: 3
PSY 3820 - Psychopathology Credit Hours: 3
SPED 4150 - Issues in Human Development Credit Hours: 3
SWK 3450 - Gerontology Credit Hours: 3
SWK 3950 - Child Abuse and Neglect Credit Hours: 3
SWK 4020 - Death, Loss, and Grief Credit Hours: 3
SWK 4100 - Human Diversity Credit Hours: 3
SWK 4110 - Law and Behavioral Sciences Credit Hours: 3