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Health Care Ethics Minor
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Philosophy
320 Bowman Hall
Tel: 330-672-2315
E-mail: philo@kent.edu
Web: www.kent.edu/cas/philosophy
Deborah Barnbaum, Coordinator, 320 Bowman Hall
The Health Care Ethics minor is a concentration of courses offered by disciplines within the university concerned with healthcare practices and the education of health-care practitioners. The minor heightens students’ awareness of what constitutes ethical concerns, problems and activity from the perspectives of various kinds of healthcare practitioners, clients and institutions. Various views of what constitutes the ethical so that students are alerted both to the conceptual dimension of ethical activity and the existence of differing and conflicting modes of ethical reasoning.
| HEALTH CARE ETHICS MINOR REQUIREMENTS (24 credits) | |||
| Course | Title | Credits | |
| BSCI | 30050 | Human Genetics | 3 |
| HED | 21050 | Health Education Theories | 3 |
| PHIL | 21001 | Introduction to Ethics | 3 |
| 40005 | Health Care Ethics | 3 | |
| SOC | 42563 | Sociology of Health and Health Care | 3 |
| Choose from the following clusters: Maximum 6 credit hours may be taken in any one cluster |
9 | ||
| Cluster I: | |||
| BSCI | 20021 | Basic Microbiology (3) | |
| 40020 | Biology of Aging (3) | ||
| Cluster II: | |||
| SOC | 42010 | Death and Dying (3) | |
| Cluster III: | |||
| HED | 14020 | Introduction to Medical Terminology (3) | |
| 42041 | Health Counseling (3) | ||
| Cluster IV: | |||
| PHIL | 21003 | Ethics in Contemporary Contexts (3)* | |
| Cluster V: | |||
| HONR | 30297 | Junior Colloquium**(3) | |
| ILS | 49993 | Human Values in Medicine (1-5)*** | |
| TOTAL | 24 | ||
*PHIL 21003 is recommended but not required
**Pertinent to health care issues. Restricted to honors students or with special approval of instructor.
***With prior approval of coordinator of the minor in health care ethics.
Minimum cumulative 2.00 GPA required for graduation.
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