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Fall 2024 courses

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UBTH 5101 Urban Bioethics 1 (3 credits, 14 weeks)
Instructor: Dr. Nora Jones
Mondays, 4:30pm on Zoom (August 26 – December 16)


Decentering-Whiteness

UBTH 5230 Decentering Whiteness: Implications for Healthcare & Higher Education

(3 credits, 14 weeks)
Instructor: Dr. Melanie Cosby
Thursdays, 6:00-8:30 pm on Zoom (August 26 – December 12)

The-Living-of-Dying

UBTH 5220 The Living of Dying – Bioethics & Culture at the End of Life (1.5 credits, 7 weeks)
Instructor: Dr. Brandon Wolfeld
Tuesdays, 7:00 – 9:30 pm on Zoom (October 15 – December 9)


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 – Urban Bioethics 1 (offered every Fall semester)
  • UBTH 5002/5102 – Urban Bioethics 2 (offered every Spring semester)
  • UBTH 5022/5122 – Community Engagement I (offered every Fall semester)
  • UBTH 5023/5123 – Community Engagement II (offered every Spring semester)
  • UBTH 5031/5131 – The Values, Ethics, & Economics of Health Care Delivery in Urban Communities (offered every Summer semester)
  • UBTH 5041/5141 – Critical Social Science and Urban Bioethics (offered every Fall semester)

Sample Electives

Note: Full-semester (3 credit) electives and Spring 7-week 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