Fall 2024 courses
Email maub@temple.edu with questions about registration.
JOIN-US-Fall-2024-CoursesUBTH 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)
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