Required courses (9 credits)

• BIOL 100 - General Principles of Biology

• or BIOL 110 - Biology: A Human Approach  or BIOL 117 - Environmental Biology  or BIOL 121 - General Biology I  

• PHIL 205 - Biomedical Ethics

• or BIOL 314 - Bioethics  

• PHIL 260 - Philosophy of Science

• or PHIL 261 - Science, Values and Society  

Elective courses (3 credits)

Complete at least one of the following: or any BIOL course at the 300-level or above** (Elective courses may require prerequisite courses.)

**Students who choose to take BIOL 314 as a required course may not also use BIOL 314 to meet the elective course requirement.

• PHIL 215 - Environmental Ethics
• PHIL 219 - Public Health Ethics
• PHIL 241 - Philosophy of Medicine
• BIET 410 - Capstone Seminar in Bioethics
• BIET 498 - Capstone Bioethics Internship
• BIET 499 - Capstone Directed Study in Bioethics

Cognate courses (6 credits)

Complete two courses, selected from the following (cognate courses may require prerequisite courses):

• ANTH 130 - Monkeys, Apes and Us
• ANTH 204 - Global Human Issues
• ANTH 226 - African Ethnomedicine
• ANTH 230 - Culture, Health and Illness
• ANTH 232 - Critical Issues in Global Health
• ANTH 405 - Forensic Anthropology
• COMD 315 - Autism and the Family: From Bettelheim to Neurodiversity
• COMM 317 - Health Communication
• CRJU 290 - Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System
• CRJU 375 - Mental Health and Corrections
• CRJU 406 - Ethics and the Criminal Justice System
• ECON 376 - Health Care Economics
• ENGL 497 - Seminar: World Literatures and Cultures  (when offered as Animals in Literature; with approval of minor coordinator)
• HEAL 102 - Health and Wellness
• HEAL 205 - Foundations of Public Health
• HEAL 210 - Issues in Male Health
• HEAL 300 - Current Issues in Health
• HEAL 315 - School and Community Health
• HEAL 360 - Health Care in the U.S.
• HEAL 385 - Epidemiology
• HEAL 401 - Human Sexuality
• HEAL 404 - Cultural Diversity in Health and Disease
• HEAL 405 - Drugs in Society
• HEAL 477 - Environmental and Consumer Health
• HEAL 484 - Death and Dying Education
• NUTR 425 - Cultural Factors Influencing Nutrition and Health
• PHIL 152 - Contemporary Moral Problems
• PHIL 153 - Ethics
• PHIL 214 - Philosophy of Race
• PHIL 220 - Ethics Bowl: Making the Case for What’s Right
• PHIL 286 - Sophomore Honors Colloquium (1 credit, with approval from minor coordinator)
• PHIL 403 - Ethics and Action
• PHIL 406 - Applied Ethics
• PSYC 465 - Health Psychology
• SOCI 215 - Sociology of Health and Illness

Total minimum credits: 18