Public Health-related Majors
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Bioethics
This major requires 12 courses. Prerequisites do not add any additional courses. It is a Bachelor of Arts major that satisfies the Humanities requirement of the Rochester Curriculum.
- Key goals for this major:
- Provide students with the tools to think about the major ethical and related legal questions that arise in medicine and public health;
- Understand the frameworks in which individual moral decisions should be made;
- Understand the frameworks in which social and political moral decisions should be made;
- Understand the most important controversies in bioethics;
- Develop the tools to analyze moral arguments in bioethics; and
- Develop the tools to construct arguments that contribute to some of these debates.
Requirements of the Major (prerequisites in parentheses):
| A. Foundational Courses: | ||
|---|---|---|
| None | ||
| B. Common Core (5 courses): | ||
| PH 101 | Introduction to Public Health I | (none) |
| PH 102 | Introduction to Public Health II | (PH 101) |
| PH 103 | Concepts of Epidemiology | (none) |
| STT 212 | Appl. Stat. for the Biological and Physical Sciences I | (none) |
| PHL 228 or PHL 225 |
Public Health Ethics or Medical Ethics | (none) |
| C. Specific Core Requirements: | ||
| Required Core (3 courses) | ||
| PHL 102 | General Ethics | (none) |
| PHL 223W | Social and Political Philosophy | (PHL 102) |
| PSC xxx | Health Law | (none) |
| One Additional Bioethics Course: (must be Public Health Ethics if not taken as part of the core) | ||
| PHL 225W | Medical Ethics | (none) |
| PHL 228W | Public Health Ethics | (none) |
| PHL xxx | Clinical Ethics | (none) |
| D. Electives (3 courses, 2 of which must come from Philosophy and Ethics): | ||
| I. Philosophy and Ethics | ||
| PHL 103 | Contemporary Moral Problems | (none) |
| PHL 220/220W | Recent Ethical Theory | (1 in ethics) |
| PHL 226 | Philosophy of Law | (1 in PHL) |
| PHL 230W | Environmental Justice | (1 in PHL) |
| II. History, Sociology, and Anthropology | ||
| HLS 116 | Introduction to the U.S. Health System | (none) |
| HIS 208/208W | Medicine, History and Social Reform | (none) |
| HIS 209/209W | Changing Concepts of Health and IllnessMedical Sociology | (none) |
| SOC 262 | Medical Sociology | (none) |
| ANT 216 | Medical Anthropology | (1 in ANT) |
| HIS 287 | History of International and Global Health | (none) |
| E. Upper-Level Writing Requirement: | ||
| Students will be required to register for two upper-level writing courses within this major. | ||
| F. Capstone Senior Seminar (final year): | ||
| This course would be one of the two courses fulfilling the Upper-Level Writing Requirement of the College. | ||
Distinction Program:
This major will offer a distinction program in which the terms “distinction”, “high distinction”, and “highest distinction” will reflect the quality of performance in the major. A GPA of at least 3.40 will qualify for “distinction”; a GPA of at least 3.60 will qualify for “high distinction”; and a GPA of at least 3.80 will qualify for “highest distinction”.