Bioethics, Minor

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Required Biology Courses

• All of:
  • BIOL 1111 — General Biology 1
  • BIOL 1112 — Lab for BIOL 1111
• All of:
  • BIOL 2301 — Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • BIOL 2302 — Lab for BIOL 2301
• BIOL 2329 — Bioethics

Intermediate Biological Ethics Courses

From the catalog

Complete at least one of the following:

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • BIOL 3419 — Engaging with Genomics: Ethics Law and Policy
  • BIOL 3423 — Animal Models in Biomedical Research
  • NRSG 2150 — Ethical Healthcare: Genetics and Genomics
  • PHIL 3065 — Bioethics in the Age of Big Data

General Ethics Electives

From the catalog

The remaining course may be selected from either the intermediate biological ethics course list or from the list of general ethics electives.

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • INSH 1300 — Introduction to Health and Humanities
  • PHIL 1102 — Introduction to Contemporary Moral Issues
  • PHIL 1145 — Technology and Human Values
  • PHIL 1165 — Moral and Social Problems in Healthcare
  • PHIL 1180 — Environmental Ethics
  • PHIL 1185 — The Ethics of Food
  • PHIL 1195 — Research Ethics

GPA requirements

• 2.000 GPA required in the minor

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under bioethics-minor, and the official page is the authority.