Courses for Graduate certificate
A total of 14 graduate credits are required. Students must complete the 8 credit core as well as 6 credits in elective classes.
CORE
HCE 701 Foundations of Bioethics (3 credits)
Examines the moral and ethical foundations of bioethics through critical thinking and writing. Applies theories of modern bioethics to contemporary issues in health care.
HCE 702 Legal and Ethical Issues in Bioethics (3 credits)
Legal and ethical issues relevant to local and national health care professionals and consumers, including cultural, legal, ethical research and practical issues. Prerequisite: HCE 701.
HCE 780 Clinical Ethics (2 credits)
Students pursuing graduate certificate in bioethics learn the skills of clinical ethics consultation as part of a supervised field experience. Prerequisite: HCE 701 or HCE 702.
ELECTIVES
The remaining 6 credits focus in a student's area of interest including such topics as research ethics, humanities, environment, religion, death and dying, morality, aging, rural ethics, cross-cultural ethics, public health and health policy.
HCE 691 Independent Study in Health Care Ethics (1-3 credits)
Opportunity for students to master areas of knowledge in health care
ethics through independent organization and assimilation of material
under the guidance of faculty advisors.
HCE 695 Topics in Health Care Ethics (3 credits)
Course description varies by semester, call office for specific information.
HDFS 637 Death and Dying: Family and Lifespan Perspectives (3 credits)
Overview of death and dying. Coping and adaptation as an individual and
family experience from prenatal development throughout adulthood. Emphasis
on both personal and professional applications in human development and family studies, psychology or sociology.
PHIL 650 Ethical Theory (3 credits)
Branch of ethics that concerns morality. Topics include: maximizing good, constraints on the pursuit of good, self versus society, rules versus judgment, moral conflict, beyond morality. Prerequisite: 6 credits in philosophy.
PUBH 645 Human Values and Professional Ethics (3 credits)
Focus on value systems and major ethical issues in society and health care
such as confidentiality, truth-telling and codes of professional
behavior.
PUBH 647 Health
Ethics and the Humanities (3 credits)
Explores ethical health care concepts through the use of poetry, literature,
film, and art.
PUBH 747 Health Care Ethics in Religious Traditions (3 credits)
Examines ethical traditions of medicine and health care in various religious
traditions including Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Islam and Protestantism.
PUBH 785 Public
Health Ethics (3 credits)
Interface of ethics of the individual and the community as it applies
to intelligent creation of public health policy.