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Spring 2024 courses

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UBTH 5102 Urban Bioethics 2 (3 credits, 14 weeks)
Instructor: Dr. Nora Jones
Mondays, 4:30pm on Zoom (January 16 – May 7)


Final-version

UBTH 5230 Emancipatory Philosophy: Tools for Revolution, Abolition, and Radical Change in Healthcare

(3 credits, 14 weeks)
Instructors: Dr. Whitney Cabey, Prof. Nicolle Strand
Tuesdays, 5:00-7:30 pm on Zoom (January 16 – May 7)

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UBTH 5220 Urban Bioethics and Applied Epidemiology (1.5 credits, 7 weeks)
Instructor: Amie Devlin
Thursdays, 6:00 – 8:30 pm on Zoom (March 12 – April 29)


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