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Health Care Ethics - Minor

The Health Care Ethics minor 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 heightens 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 examined so that students are alerted both to the conceptual dimension of ethical activity and to the existence of differing and conflicting modes of ethical reasoning.

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Program Requirements

Minor Requirements

Minor Requirements
BSCI 30050HUMAN GENETICS 3
HED 21050HEALTH EDUCATION THEORIES 3
PHIL 21001INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS (DIVG) (KHUM) 3
PHIL 40005HEALTH CARE ETHICS 3
SOC 42563SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 3
Minor Electives, choose from the following:9
BSCI 20021
BASIC MICROBIOLOGY
BSCI 40020
BIOLOGY OF AGING
HED 14020
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
HED 42041
HEALTH COACHING
PHIL 30015
MEDICINE AND MORALITY 1
PHIL 41030
ETHICAL THEORY
SOC 42010
DEATH AND DYING
Minimum Total Credit Hours:24
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PHIL 30015 is recommended but not required. 

 

Graduation Requirements

Minimum Minor GPA Minimum Overall GPA
2.000 2.000
  • Minimum 6 credit hours in the minor must be upper-division coursework (30000 and 40000 level).
  • Minimum 6 credit hours in the minor must be outside of the course requirements for any major or other minor the student is pursuing.
  • Minimum 50 percent of the total credit hours for the minor must be taken at Kent State (in residence).
Admissions

Admission Requirements

Admission to a minor is open to students declared in a bachelor’s degree, the A.A.B. or A.A.S. degree or the A.T.S. degree (not Individualized Program major). Students declared only in the A.A. or A.S. degree or the A.T.S. degree in Individualized Program may not declare a minor. Students may not pursue a minor and a major in the same discipline.

Program Delivery
  • Delivery:
    • In person
  • Location:
    • Kent Campus
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