THEO 349 - 001

Regular Academic Session

6105

Undergraduate

3 units

Graded Alpha

Bioethics Cap: Theology & Chemistry

The interdisciplinary team-taught Bioethics capstone course examines a topic in bioethics from both scientific and ethical points of view. Topics may include bio-technologies, concepts of race and gender, the environment, reproduction, and others. This course number provides an elective for Theology students when the Bioethics capstone's topic is theological.

Prerequisite: Two Science courses and two Ethics courses.

Outcomes: Students will understand the connection between ethical and scientific issues with regard to the special topic in theology.

Instructor Consent Required

Bioethics

The United States has produced state-of-the-art medical and scientific breakthroughs including chemical and pharmacologic innovations that have transformed healthcare treatment, agriculture, and what Americans consume both medicinally and nutritionally. The development of effective vaccines is just one prominent example of the life and death difference that medical research can make. Yet,U.S. healthcare and nutrition are also characterized by pernicious ethical problems including systemic racial-ethnic and socio-economic inequities, high costs, potent healthcare/pharmaceutical/food/agricultural lobbies, complex drug/treatment approval processes, and the increasing politicization of government agencies (e.g. the DHHS, CDC, NIH, EPA, FDA) This capstone course will reflect upon human responsibilities¿as scientists and researchers, healthcare providers, ethicists, people of faith, and as members of society¿to confront these realities. We will discuss the evolution of several of these issues and explore strategies for constructively addressing them. To do so, the course will use the lenses of three distinct disciplines: relevant sciences, Christian ethics, and bioethics. It will strive to tease out some of the complexities of various areas of scientific research, medical practices, and ethical questions that are integral to a robust and interdisciplinary understanding of the ethics of U.S. medical innovation and practice.

Aana Vigen, Daniel Becker

Tu 4:15PM - 6:45PM

01/12/2026 - 05/02/2026

In person

Lake Shore Campus

Lake Shore Campus

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