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Bioethics (PHI-380)

Semester:	Fall 2024
Number:	0154-380-001
Instructor:	Nathan Ross
Days:	Tuesday Thursday 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Note:	Traditional In-Person Class
Location:	Garden City - Levermore Hall 314
Credits:	3
Status:	This Course is Filled to Capacity
Course Materials:	View Text Books
Description:	Students engage in an intensive critical inquiry of a variety of moral problems and disagreements raised by the profound advances of knowledge and technology in the area of the life sciences. Particular topics of discussion range form the ethics of health care practice to ethical concerns of psychobiology and bioengineering. (Distribution Reqs:Humanities)
Learning Goals:	Course Learning Goals:Students will• Develop their critical thinking and interpretive skills for analyzing and evaluating arguments in general.• Develop their capacity for abstract thought.• Develop their capacity for spoken and written self-expression.• Increase their understanding of various ethical standards.• Increase their understanding of ethical and moral debates concerning:* Euthanasia.* Gene Therapy & Human Enhancement.* The distribution of Healthcare Resources.* Genetic Screening & Cloning.* Human and Animal Testing.* Organ Donation and Allocation.• apply their increased understanding and developed skills in:* making sense of their world.* assessing the positions and arguments of others.* considering their own ethical responsibilities.* forming their own arguments to rationally support their own convictions concerning bioethics. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.

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