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Upcoming Courses

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Required Courses:

  • Bioethics is a normative enterprise that reflects on the fundamental nature of human personhood, as well as issues of the common good. Theological reflection is integral to this endeavor. This course will invite students to examine the extent to which Christian theological reflection informs bioethical discourse on issues such as genetic medicine, stem cell research, health care dilemmas, artificial intelligence, beginning of life issues, physician-assisted suicide, and other topics. University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Theological Inquiry. (4 semester hours)

    Upcoming Classes:

    Fall 2025

    W, 6:00pm-9:20pm, Jennifer Gumer

    Tu/Th, 9:55am-11:35am, Nicholas Brown

    Tu/Th, 1:45pm-3:25pm, Nicholas Brown

  • This seminar focuses the students on a single bioethical issue, allowing a deep dive into the nuance and complexity of real-life dilemmas, as framed by the best practices of clinical bioethicists, medical ethics scholars, and ""systems"" experts--such as regulators, commerce-drivers and researchers. Issues include but are not limited to Justice and Health Care, Bioethics and the Beginning of Life, Bioethics and the End of Life, and Clinical Bioethics. As both a capstone and interdisciplinary seminar, this course will require a student to examine and evaluate a bioethical issue by approaching and integrating content and knowledge from other courses in the Bioethics minor. Prerequisite: BIOE 1000. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections. (4 semester hours)

    Upcoming classes:

    Fall 2025

    MWF, 1:40pm-2:50pm, Alex Zambrano

Core Courses (Pick Any 2):

  • A study of the questions which a person must ask, and the answers one must consider, in forming an intelligent philosophy of moral choice, carried on in the light of the Catholic intellectual tradition. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Ethics and Justice. (4 semester hours)

    Upcoming Courses:

    Fall 2025

    MW, 8:00am-9:40am, Brain Reedy

    MW, 9:55am-11:35am, Brain Reedy

    M, 6:00pm-9:20pm, Michael Patzia

    W, 6:00pm-9:20pm, Michael Patzia

    MWF, 8:00am-9:10am, (Professor information not yet available)

    MWF, 9:25am-10:35am, (Professor information not yet available)

    MWF, 12:15pm-1:25pm, (Professor information not yet available)

    MWF, 1:40pm-2:50pm, (Professor information not yet available)

  • A careful study of the ethical dimensions of friendship, love, marriage, and commitment. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Ethics and Justice. (4 semester hours)

    Upcoming courses:

    Fall 2025

    Tu/Th, 9:55am-11:35am, Robert Allison

     

  • The course provides students with materials both for their own reflection on and construction of an ethics directing their conduct as professionals engaged in complex organizations and structures. The course examines these topics: -- the systems causing and remedying climate change, -- the historical and social variation in technological development, -- the medical and legal uses of genomic techniques, -- and the design and impact of computer algorithms. Restricted to majors in the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Ethics and Justice. (4 semester hours)

    Upcoming Courses:

    Fall 2025

    Tu/Th, 9:55am-11:35am, Philip Chmielewski

    Tu/Th, 11:50am-1:30pm, Philip Chmielewski

  • An in-depth study of a contemporary ethical issue. University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Ethics and Justice; Flag: Writing. (4 semester hours)

    Upcoming courses:

    Fall 2025

    Tu/Th, 8:00am-9:40am, Robert Allison

    Tu/Th, 1:45pm-3:25pm, Robert Allison

Elective Courses (Pick any one)

  • Development of the field of medical sociology, with emphasis on changing patterns in the health care and delivery systems, doctor-patient relationships, and health care. (4 semester hours)

    Upcoming Courses:

    Fall 2025

    M/W, 11:50am-1:30pm, Rachel Washburn

  • Seminar focuses on a faculty-selected topic to be investigated using the biopsychosocial perspective. The topic of this seminar is selected by the faculty member from within his or her area of expertise. Students are expected to broadly review and integrate their learning in psychology across the curriculum. This course fulfills the capstone requirement. Prerequisites: All required courses for the major completed or concurrently completed with capstone. Senior Psychology majors only. (4 semester hours)

    Upcoming Courses:

    Fall 2025

    Tuesday, 3:40pm-7pm, Timothy Williamson