The courses are taught as part of the curriculum for the Bioethics Program at
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.BE 5900 Bioethics National Conference Course
The annual national/international bioethics conference at Trinity provides a unique opportunity to learn from and interact with Christian leaders in bioethics from around the country and beyond. The course includes a preconference reading program and post-conference writing program tailored to the topic of the 2024 conference, The Future of Health: Faith, Ethics, and Our MedTech World. Class meetings with the professor immediately precede and are interspersed throughout the conference. May be taken in addition to an Institute course such as BE 6500 offered in conjunction with the conference. Cannot be taken as a Guided Reading Course. May be repeated for credit. Offered face to face at the Deerfield campus. This course is only available for academic credit. Students will automatically be registered at no additional cost for CBHD’s Conference as part of the registration for this course.
- 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.
BE 6500 Advanced Bioethics Institute
This course is a methodological investigation of how to do bioethics with a range of approaches critically assessed from a biblical-theological perspective. A national/international team of top Christian bioethicists address special areas of expertise. Institute students taking this course for academic credit will automatically be registered for CBHD’s The Future of Health: Faith, Ethics, and Our MedTech World conference June 27-29, 2024 free of charge. Attendance is required at the conference as part of this course. Students may also register for the conference wrap-around course for an additional 2-3 credit hours.
- 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.
BE 5800 Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
Dates:
June 26–27, 2024; (8:30am-3:30pm Wed) (8:30am-3:30pm Thurs)
Trinity hosted bioethics workshops provide a unique opportunity to explore emerging issues in contemporary bioethics through topical workshops led by an interdisciplinary team of Christian leaders in bioethics from around the country and beyond. This course includes a pre-workshop reading program and post-workshop assignments tailored to the topics of the workshop. Special emphasis is given to the professional dimensions of the issues under consideration, as well as an examination of the evolving academic literature. May be repeated for credit. The topics of this 2024 course include two of CBHD’s preconference workshops exploring The State of Assisted Suicide in the States and Overtreatment and the Frail Elderly: Case Studies and Ethical Analysis. Special emphasis in these workshops will be given to the professional dimensions of the issues under consideration, as well as an examination of the evolving academic literature. This course is only available for academic credit. Students will automatically be registered at no additional cost for both of CBHD’s Preconference Workshops as part of the registration for this course.
- 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.
