Courses

UBTH 5230 Beyond Inclusion: Rethinking Mental Health, Well-Being, and Racial Justice in Healthcare and Higher Education (1.5 credits, 7 weeks)

Instructor: Dr. Melanie Cosby
Tuesdays, 7:00 – 9:30 pm on Zoom (August 25 – October 13)

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UBTH 5230 Transforming Society, Improving Health, Advancing Justice: Theories and Praxis of Social Change (3 credits, 14 weeks)

Instructor: Prof. Nicolle Strand
Tuesdays, 5:00 – 7:30 pm on Zoom (August 25 – December 16)

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Core Courses

Full course descriptions of our core courses can be found on Temple’s Graduate Bulletin.
Current offerings can be found on Temple’s class schedule search tool.

• UBTH 5001/5101 – Foundations of Health Justice and Bioethics I (offered every Fall semester)
• UBTH 5002/5102 – Foundations of Health Justice and Bioethics II (offered every Spring semester)
• UBTH 5022/5122 – Community Engagement (offered every Fall semester)
• UBTH 5031/5131 – Health Care Policy and Economics (offered every Summer semester)
• UBTH 5041/5141 – Bioethics, Health Justice and the Social Sciences: Theory, Methods and Practice (offered every Spring semester)

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Sample Electives

Note: Electives vary each semester and are not guaranteed to be repeated. Recent elective topics include:

• Decentering Whiteness: Implications for Healthcare and Higher Education
• Reproductive Ethics
• LGBT Bioethics
• Dystopian Bioethics
• Disability Ethics
• Urban Bioethics in a Pandemic
• Violence Prevention and Intervention
• Dying and Pop Culture
• Clinical Ethics
• Social Change in Health Care
• Interrogating Wellness Culture: A Socio-Political Review of Charlatans, Snake-Oil and Self Care
• Transplant Ethics
• Immigration, Health, and Urban Life
• Medicine and Bioethics in the City of Brotherly Love
• Exploring the Impact of Trauma & Adversity
• The Living of Dying: Bioethics at the End of Life