Contact Information
- Program Coordinator: Deborah Barnbaum | dbarnbau@kent.edu | 330-672-0267
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Fully Offered
- Delivery:
- In person
- Location:
- Kent Campus
Description
The Health Care Ethics minor is a concentration of courses offered by disciplines within the university concerned with health care practices and the education of health care practitioners. The minor heightens students’ awareness of what constitutes ethical concerns, problems and activity from the perspectives of various kinds of health care practitioners, clients and institutions. Various views of what constitutes the ethical are examined so that students are alerted both to the conceptual dimension of ethical activity and to the existence of differing and conflicting modes of ethical reasoning.
Admission Requirements
Admission to a minor is open to students declared in a bachelor’s degree, the A.A.B. or A.A.S. degree or the A.T.S. degree (not Individualized Program major). Students declared only in the A.A. or A.S. degree or the A.T.S. degree in Individualized Program may not declare a minor. Students may not pursue a minor and a major in the same discipline.
Program Requirements
Minor Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Minor Requirements | ||
| BSCI 30050 | HUMAN GENETICS | 3 |
| HED 21050 | HEALTH EDUCATION THEORIES | 3 |
| PHIL 21001 | INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS (DIVG) (KHUM) | 3 |
| PHIL 40005 | HEALTH CARE ETHICS | 3 |
| SOC 42563 | SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE | 3 |
| Minor Electives, choose from the following: | 9 | |
| BASIC MICROBIOLOGY | ||
| BIOLOGY OF AGING | ||
| MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY | ||
| HEALTH COACHING | ||
| MEDICINE AND MORALITY 1 | ||
| ETHICAL THEORY | ||
| DEATH AND DYING | ||
| Minimum Total Credit Hours: | 24 | |
- 1
PHIL 30015 is recommended but not required.
Graduation Requirements
| Minimum Minor GPA | Minimum Overall GPA |
|---|---|
| 2.000 | 2.000 |
- Students must complete at least two upper-division (30000 or 40000 level) courses in the minor at Kent State on a graded basis (A-F).
- Minimum 6 credit hours in the minor must be upper-division coursework (30000 and 40000 level).
- Minimum 6 credit hours in the minor must be outside of the course requirements for any major or other minor the student is pursuing.
- Minimum 50 percent of the total credit hours for the minor must be taken at Kent State (in residence).