Courses

UBTH 5220 Understanding Trauma: A Precondition for Health and Healing (1.5 credits, 7 weeks)

Instructor: Dr. Megan Healy
Thursdays, 5:00 – 7:30 pm on Zoom (January 13 – March 10)

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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 – 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
• The Living of Dying: Bioethics at the End of Life