This major requires 13 courses. Prerequisites do not add any additional courses. The bioethics major leads to a bachelor of arts degree and satisfies the humanities requirement of the Rochester Curriculum.
Key goals for this major:
- Provide students with the tools to think about the major ethical and related legal questions that arise in medicine and public health
- Understand the frameworks in which individual moral decisions should be made
- Understand the frameworks in which social and political moral decisions should be made
- Understand the most important controversies in bioethics
- Develop the tools to analyze moral arguments in bioethics
- Develop the tools to construct arguments that contribute to some of these debates
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