Health Care Ethics Minor

The health-care ethics program is a concentration of courses offered by disciplines within the university concerned with health-care practices and the education of health-care practitioners. The minor is designed to heighten students’ awareness of what constitutes ethical concerns, problems and activity from the perspectives of various kinds of health-care practitioners, clients and institutions. Various views of what constitutes the ethical are treated in the ethics courses so that the student is alerted both to the conceptual dimension of ethical activity and the existence of differing and conflicting modes of ethical reasoning, with PHIL 40005 Health Care Ethics attempting to sketch appropriate action in the light of these realities.

Students wishing to enter this program need to be certain that required prerequisites of many of the courses within the program are met.

 

HEALTH CARE ETHICS MINOR REQUIREMENTS (24 credits)
Course	Title	Credits
BSCI	30050	Human Genetics	3
HED	21050	Health Education Theories	3
PHIL	21001	Introduction to Ethics	3
	40005	Health Care Ethics	3
SOC	42563	Sociology of Health and Health Care	3
Choose from the following clusters: Maximum 6 credit hours may be taken in any one cluster	9
Cluster I:
BSCI	20021	Basic Microbiology (3)
	40020	Biology of Aging (3)
Cluster II:
SOC	42010	Death and Dying (3)
Cluster III:
HED	14020	Introduction to Medical Terminology (3)
	42041	Health Counseling (3)
Cluster IV:
PHIL	21003	Ethics in Contemporary Contexts (3)*
Cluster V:
HONR	30297	Junior Colloquium**(3)
ILS	49993	Human Values in Medicine (1-5)***
TOTAL	24

 

*PHIL 21003 is recommended but not required
**Pertinent to health care issues. Restricted to honors students or with special approval of instructor.
***With prior approval of coordinator of the minor in health care ethics.

Minimum cumulative 2.00 GPA required for graduation.