Health Care Ethics

Professor Barnbaum, Coordinator

The Health-care Ethics program is a concentration of courses offered by disciplines concerned with health-care practices and the education of health-care practitioners. The minor is designed to heighten a student's awareness of what constitutes ethical concerns, problems, and activity from the perspectives of various kinds of health-care practitioners, clients, and institutions. Ethics courses present perspectives on ethical life in order to alert the student to the conceptual dimension of ethical activity and the existence of differing and conflicting modes of ethical reasoning.

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

Required Courses:				15 Hours
BSCI	30050		Human Genetics	3
HED	21050		Health Behavior	3
SOC	42563		Sociology of Health and Health Care	3
PHIL	40005		Health-Care Ethics	3
PHIL	21001		Intro to Ethics	3
plus 9 additional hours, where no more than 6 hours can be taken in any one cluster				9 hours
Cluster I:
BSCI	20021		Basic Microbiology	3
BSCI	40020		Biology of Aging	3
Cluster II:
SOC	42010		Death & Dying	3
Cluster III:
HED	14020		Intro to Med. Technology	3
HED	22564		Intro to Disease	3
HED	42041		Health Counseling	3

Total     24 Hours