Department of Philosophy
College of Arts and Sciences
320 Bowman Hall
Tel: 330-672-2315
Fax: 330 -672-4867
Web: http://philosophy.kent.edu
Deborah Barnbaum, Coordinator, 320 Bowman Hall
Health Care Ethics Minor
The health-care ethics program is a concentration of courses offered by disciplines within the university concerned with health-care practices and the education of health-care practitioners. The minor is designed to heighten students’ awareness of what constitutes ethical concerns, problems and activity from the perspectives of various kinds of health-care practitioners, clients and institutions. Various views of what constitutes the ethical are treated in the ethics courses so that the student is alerted both to the conceptual dimension of ethical activity and the existence of differing and conflicting modes of ethical reasoning, with PHIL 40005 Health Care Ethics attempting to sketch appropriate action in the light of these realities.
Students wishing to enter this program need to be certain that required prerequisites of many of the courses within the program are met.
Course requirements for health care ethics minor (24 credits):
| Minor Requirements | ||||
| BSCI | 30050 | Human Genetics | 3 | |
| HED | 21050 | Health Behavior | 3 | |
| SOC | 42563 | Sociology of Health and Health Care | 3 | |
| PHIL | 21001 | Introduction to Ethics | 3 | |
| 40005 | Health Care Ethics | 3 | ||
| Choose from the following clusters: | 9 | |||
| Maximum 6 credit hours may be taken in any one cluster | ||||
| 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) | |
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Total |
24 | |||
* PHIL 21003 is recommended but not required.
** Pertinent to health care issues. Restricted to honors students or with permission of instructor.
*** With prior approval of coordinator of the minor in health-care ethics.
Minimum cumulative 2.00 GPA required for graduation.