Bioethics for Undergrads

Starting this fall, undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences have a new academic option: a minor in bioethics. The first cross-school minor between the Perelman School of Medicine and the College, this interdisciplinary program involves perspectives from anthropology, history and sociology of science, philosophy, political science, and sociology, as well
as medicine. 

The bioethics minor is intended to give students a broad overview of the methods, central ethical questions, and content areas that comprise the field of bioethics. “Penn is the best place in the country, if not the world, to study bioethics, and all that expertise is readily available to our undergraduates,” says Jonathan Moreno, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, of History and Sociology of Science, and of Philosophy. “Already I have bioethics minors in my graduate class.  This minor recognizes that strength and will help to organize the way our students learn about the field.”