Credits: 9 credit hours

Cost: CSU Undergraduate tuition cost of $401.50 OR CSU Graduate tuition cost of $531.40 (fall 2015) per credit hour + $25 per credit hour online learning fee.

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• The Bioethics Program, developed by the Philosophy Department at CSU, offers a course of study designed for persons involved in the allied health professions, health care practice, research, administration, or litigation. Earning our Certificate in Bioethics, either undergraduate or graduate will be most useful to those who will often be faced with the ethical questions that will inevitably arise in the clinical or research settings. A course of study in bioethics will provide a foundation in the essentials of ethical theory as well as the fundamentals of bioethics.

• The program requires a total of 9 semester hours in bioethics at the undergraduate or graduate level, distributed as described below, with a grade of at least 3.0 quality points in each:

  • Moral Reasoning Requirement

    Course	Title	Credits
    PHL 440/540	Moral Reasoning and Bioethics	3 Credits
  • Bioethics Electives (6 credits - choose two)

    Course	Title	Credits
    PHL 441/541	Clinical Issues in Bioethics	3 Credits
    PHL 442	Policy Issues in Bioethics	3 Credits
    PHL 443/543	Bioethics and the Law	3 Credits
    PHL 444/544	Bioethics and Biotechnology	3 Credits
    PHL 428/528	Special Topics	3 Credits

• Enrollment is open to persons who have earned a bachelor's degree or its equivalent and to upper-level undergraduates. The courses may be taken by either degree-seeking or non-degree seeking students. According to individual interests, registered students are free to enroll in any one or more of the courses offered. Although the courses satisfy the requirements of both undergraduate and graduate degree seeking students, they are open to non-degree seeking students as well. Interested students who are not current CSU students should apply to the university.

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• Interested students should fill out the Request Information form and indicate their preference for the Undergraduate Bioethics Certificate OR the Graduate Bioethics Certificate.

  For more information on the Bioethics Certificate program, visit https://www.csuohio.edu/class/philosophy-religion/bioethics-certificate

  For additional information, contact:

  Professor Robichaud, Ph.D., Chairperson
  The Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion
  Cleveland State University
  2121 Euclid Avenue, Rhodes Tower 1932
  Cleveland, OH 44115
  216-687-3900
  a.robichaud@csuohio.edu