2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Bioethics Certificate
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The School of Public Health undergraduate Certificate in Bioethics offers a practical, interdisciplinary and in-depth exploration of bioethical issues with a particular focus on public health ethics, medical ethics, and research ethics. This program is likely to be of interest to those in health-science related programs. By completing the certificate, students will acquire translatable skills required to analyze and resolve a wide breadth of ethical issues applicable to a variety of health care environments, including but not limited to, public health, community health, acute care, home care/hospice care/palliative care, human subjects research, long-term care, rehabilitation, private practice, schools and athletic facilities. Courses included in the certificate focus on ethical, legal and societal issues in population health and individual health including health equity (particularly in relation to at-risk populations), end-of-life decision making, informed consent, decision-making capacity, confidentiality and privacy, organ donation, religious and cultural implications in medicine, conflict resolution, human subjects research and distribution of scarce resources. The certificate is designed to provide students translatable skills and authentic experiences.
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Academic Requirements
To receive a certificate in Bioethics, a student will complete 18 credits in courses that focus on Bioethics or related topics. This represents 10 required foundational credits, 3 elective credits, a 3 credit prescribed interdisciplinary experience, and 2 credits of capstone experience.
Required Courses (13 Credits)
Elective Courses (3 Credits)
Elective courses in public health, arts and sciences, rehabilitations sciences, and nursing which relate to the student’s career focus or particular area of interest, including but not limited to population health, religious and cultural issues in health/medicine, global health and health issues faced by individuals from populations who are at-risk for discrimination. A list of approved courses is below. Students may propose alternative courses that are not included on the approved list for individual consideration.
The process would be for the student to provide a copy of the proposed syllabus to the certificate administrator. The request will be considered by a minimum of two Bioethics Certificate faculty members with the final determination being made by the certificate administrator.
Bioethics Certificate Approved Elective Courses
Capstone Experience (2 Credits)
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