PH 355 - Bioethics

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3 ; Social Justice
Ethical issues that arise in the health sciences including, but not limited to, clinical ethics, ethical issues in new technologies, public health ethics, and distributive justice. The course will focus on sound reasoning through discursive writing.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Independently apply terminology and foundational concepts to questions in bioethics.

2. Identify basic ethical issues in the health sciences with particular attention to issues of equity and justice.

3. Discuss different ethical perspectives on current issues in health sciences and their implications

4. Compose clear, thoughtful, and convincing argumentative writing.

5. Locate, summarize, and evaluate academic arguments about bioethics.

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

Use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity.
Describe the challenges to achieving social justice.
Identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, and/or the world.