Annual Conference Bioethics Courses

- Become familiar with the academic discipline of bioethics in its central concepts, historical development, methodological approaches, biblical and theological norms, and the variety of issues it seeks to address.

- Develop a basic approach of decision-making skills in order to assess the various current and future bioethical issues in healthcare and biotechnology that face our society.

- Be equipped to analyze and interact with competing perspectives with regard to long-standing ethical concerns and those issues presented by the use of emerging technologies both within the church and the culture at large.

- Develop Christian perspectives on a range of current topics and underlying issues in bioethics, especially as they relate to medicine, nursing, bioethics, and other health-related fields.

- Be able to compare such perspectives with non-Christian perspectives that are particularly influential today.

- Develop a more in-depth understanding of a particular aspect of bioethics by interaction with a chosen issue from an evidence-based Christian position (for academic credit students only).

- Have the opportunity to dialogue personally with a variety of Christian leaders in healthcare and bioethics.

• Identify the prospects and challenges for the evolving landscape of bioethical engagement within the context of shifting global and societal realities and advances in medicine and biotechnology.
• Explore & discuss the ethical implications of recent developments in medicine, science, and technology with respect to our individual and common humanity.
• Evaluate contemporary bioethical discourses in light of ethical approaches that include philosophical, religious, and other perspectives from the medical humanities.
• Promote interdisciplinary engagement on pressing bioethical issues.

• Develop further the ability to discern the differences among competing contemporary approaches to bioethics.
• Understand and respond critically to the most influential bioethical issues affecting the current context of bioethics.
• Formulate a personal approach to doing bioethics by assessing alternative approaches from a Christian perspective.
• Evaluate a particular bioethical issue, comparing competing approaches.

• Identify the prospects, challenges, and ethical implications for several emerging issues in contemporary bioethics enabling participants to actively engage in the public discussion of these issues.
• Examine the historical, legal, philosophical, sociological, and theological dimensions of several emerging bioethical issues so as to promote interdisciplinary engagement.
• Be equipped to analyze and interact with competing perspectives with regard to emerging issues in contemporary bioethics that result from continued developments in science, medicine, and technology.