Degree Requirements for Current Interdisciplinary Bioethics Emphasis Students

Completion of six units to include:

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

Scientific

• BIOL 102: Evolution and Biology of Sex
• BIOL 212 Cell Biology
• BIOL 213 Genetics
• BIOL 361 Biochemical Pathways
• 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 Foundations of Neuroscience
• NRSC 450 Seminar in Neuroscience
• PSYC 312 Applied Psychological Measurement
• PSYC 320 Psychological Disorders

Ethical

• BIOE 255 Pandemic Ethics, Law, 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*
• PHIL 105 Neuroethics and Human Enhancement
• PHIL 250 Moral Philosophy
• PHIL 285 Environmental Ethics
• PHIL 370 Social and Political Philosophy
• PHIL 378 Philosophy of Law
• REL 265 Thinking Ethically
• REL 298 Reproductive Ethics
• STS 333 Evolution and Ethics*

Humanities & Social Sciences

• BUS 478 Environmental Law
• COMM 352 Health Communication Campaigns
• CONN 320 Health and Medicine*
• CONN 357 Exploring Animal Minds*
• CONN 387 Never-Never Land*
• CONN 478 Animals, Law, and Society*
• ECON 225 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• ECON 327 Climate Change Economics, Policy, and Politics
• ENGL 348 Illness and Narrative: Discourses of Disease
• ENGL 374 Literature and the Environment
• IPE 331 The International Political Economy of Food and Agriculture
• IPE 389 Global Struggles over Intellectual Property*
• PHIL 230 Philosophy of Mind
• PHIL 389 Race & Philosophy
• PHIL 390 Gender & Philosophy
• REL 204 Religions of the Book
• SOAN 360 Sociology of Health and Medicine
• SOAN 365 Global Health
• SOAN 370 Disability, Identity, and Power
• STS 310 I, Robot: Humans and Machines in the 20th and 21st Centuries
• STS 318 Science and Gender*
• STS 330 Evolution and Society Since Darwin*
• STS 366 History of Medicine
• STS 375 Science and Politics*

* Can also satisfy the Connections core requirement.

For complete descriptions of the elective courses, please consult the relevant departments in which these courses appear.

Notes

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