Degree Requirements for Bioethics

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GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MINOR

General university degree requirements stipulate that 1) three units of the minor be taken in residence at the University of Puget Sound; 2) students earn a GPA of 2.0 in courses taken for the minor; and 3) all courses taken for the minor must be taken for graded credit. Any exceptions to these stipulations are indicated in the minor degree requirements listed below.

Requirements for the Minor in Bioethics

Completion of six units to include:

One unit of BIOL 101, 102, or 111 (these courses can satisfy the Natural Scientific Core requirement), or the AP equivalent.
BIOE/REL 292 or BIOE/PHIL 292.
Three elective units distributed as follows: Scientific (up to 1 course), Ethical (up to 2 courses), and Humanities & Social Sciences (up to 2 courses).
BIOE 400 Bioethics Integration Seminar.

Notes

BIOE/REL 292 or BIOE/PHIL 292 is a prerequisite for BIOE 392 and 400.
Students who study abroad may apply one approved course toward the elective requirement unless an exception is granted by the Program Director.

Scientific

BIOL 212 Cell Biology

BIOL 213 Genetics

BIOL 361 Biochemical Pathways and Processes

BIOL 362 Nanobiology

BIOL 370 Conservation Biology

BIOL 375 Developmental Biology

BIOL 404 Molecular Biology

CONN 410 Science and Economics of Climate Change

EXSC 424 Recent Advances in Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Neuroplasticity

NRSC 201 Introduction to Neuroscience

NRSC 450 Senior Seminar: Special Topics in Neuroscience

PSYC 312 Applied Psychological Measurement

PSYC 320 Psychological Disorders

Ethical

AFAM/REL 265 What is Justice?

BIOE/REL 255 Pandemic Ethics, Laws, and Health Inequities

BIOE/REL 272 Public Health Ethics

BIOE 350 Clinical Bioethics

BIOE 392 Practicum: Clinical Bioethics

CONN 393 The Cognitive Foundations of Morality and Religion Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.

PG 348/PHIL 378 Philosophy of Law

PHIL 105 Neuroethics and Human Enhancement

PHIL 250 Moral Philosophy

PHIL 285 Environmental Ethics

PHIL 286 Ethics, Data, and Artificial Intelligence

PHIL 370 Social and Political Philosophy

REL 298 Reproductive Ethics

STHS 333 Evolution and Ethics Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.

Humanities & Social Sciences

AFAM 366/GQS 366/PG 366 Disorienting Histories: Reproductive Justice in the Post-Roe United States

BUS 478 Environmental Law

COMM 352 Health Communication Campaigns

CONN 320 Health and Medicine Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.

CONN 357 Exploring Animal Minds Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.

CONN 387 Never-Never Land Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.

CONN 478 Animals, Law, and Society Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.

ECON 225 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

ECON/ENVR 327 Climate Change: Economics, Policy, and Politics

ENGL 348 Illness and Narrative: Discourses of Disease

ENGL 374 Literature and the Environment

IPE 331 International Political Economy of Food and Agriculture

IPE 389 Global Struggles Over Intellectual Property Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.

PG/PHIL 390 Gender and Philosophy

PHIL 230 Philosophy of Mind

PHIL 389 Race and Philosophy

REL 204 Religions of the Book

SOAN 360 Sociology of Health and Medicine

SOAN 365 Global Health

SOAN 370 Disability, Identity, and Power

STHS 318 Science and Gender Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.

STHS 330 Evolution and Society Since Darwin Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.

STHS 366 Medicine in the United States: Historical Perspectives

STHS 375 Science, Technology, and Politics Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.