Biomedical Ethics
Instructor: John P. Waterman
I really enjoyed this class because it made me question how I made decisions on important ethical topics. This class was humbling and provided a great opportunity for self evaluation on why I think the way I do and my belief system about certain topics.
“Humanities and Social Sciences are vital components of a liberal arts education. Exploration courses introduce students to the Humanities and Social Sciences as ways of knowing and of understanding work done in their major fields within a wider intellectual and cultural context. While exploring a topic, issue, or theme within the framework of a particular discipline, students are exposed to the assumptions, methods, and terminology of that discipline. Exploration courses encourage active learning, acquisition of knowledge, skillful thinking, expansion of expressive capabilities, and prepare students for more advanced work in the Core.” Professor John P. Waterman
The goal of the course is to prepare students to understand, analyze, and respond constructively to moral dilemmas they may face in the health sciences and biomedical professions. Students in Exploration courses will develop skills and knowledge central to a liberal arts education, and thus after completing these requirements will be able to:
- Comprehend the disciplinary approach of philosophy, including its assumptions, methods, and terminology.
- Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
- Communicate effectively in oral and written modes, and use writing as a tool of inquiry.
- Find, evaluate, and/or use information in a way that is appropriate to philosophy.
- Understand work done in their major fields within a wider intellectual and cultural context.
- Be prepared for more advanced work in the Core, thus experiencing the Core as an integrated whole through building skills and developing new ways of thinking.
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