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This minor focuses on moral values and ethical dilemmas in regard to health, disease and healthcare. You’ll study these values and ethical queries, absorbing a diversity of approaches with an attention to global concerns. You’ll also learn to think, write and speak clearly and critically, clarifying the moral values in the context of globalization and human rights.

Minoring in healthcare ethics will allow you to analyze and reflect on fundamental human conditions, such as health, well-being and human flourishing—but also illness, disability and suffering. The emphasis on values such as respect for human life, human dignity, human rights and social justice will guide your development, encourage you to serve others, contribute to your profession and reinforce values that give meaning to life and work.

The minor is of particular interest if you are planning to work with patients and health professionals and will pursue a career in healthcare, nursing and health sciences.

Advantages of Minoring in Healthcare Ethics

• In programs across the university, you'll take Bridges courses or other ethics courses. These courses can be included in (and even grandfathered into) the minor program.
• All required courses satisfy requirements in the Bridges curriculum.

What you'll Learn with a Healthcare Ethics Minor

With a healthcare ethics minor, you will have the skills needed to achieve your bigger goals, regardless of industry or area of expertise within the healthcare ethics realm and will be able to:

• Understand the moral values and ethical dilemmas related to health, disease and healthcare, with attention to global concerns.
• Analyze and reflect on health, well-being and human flourishing, as well as illness, disability and suffering.
• Apply values such as respect for human life, human dignity, human rights and social justice to ethical questions in healthcare.
• Think, write and speak clearly and critically about moral values in the context of globalization and human rights.
• Write a substantial essay on a healthcare ethics topic you choose, such as end-of-life care, pandemics or genetic modification, in an optional independent study.