Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q2
This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2019-2020
Teacher(s)
Jacquemin Dominique;
Language
French
Main themes
This is an introduction to bioethics as history, content, societal issues and a multidisciplinary approach. It will consider the type of rationality at work in relation to other normative (deontological, juridical) norms and the place that an approach to theology can have as a discipline.
It will provide support to students to understand what "bioethics" is today, its social necessity in the field of health and technology, its limits also in theoretical terms and field of application/scope. It will understand that theological discourse has its place, but only in the deployment of bioethics as a multidisciplinary field.
Provisional Plan:
1. Bioethics: Historical and legislative milestones
2. Bioethics as an exercise of prudential judgment
3. Bioethics and Clinical Ethics
4. Bioethics and theology: what place for ecclesial and social issues?
5. Assuming necessary tensions: A sexual and family ethics in the prism of medicine and Christian ethics. Elements of fundamental theology for Christian discernment.
6. Around a singular question, "play" an ethics committee.
It will provide support to students to understand what "bioethics" is today, its social necessity in the field of health and technology, its limits also in theoretical terms and field of application/scope. It will understand that theological discourse has its place, but only in the deployment of bioethics as a multidisciplinary field.
Provisional Plan:
1. Bioethics: Historical and legislative milestones
2. Bioethics as an exercise of prudential judgment
3. Bioethics and Clinical Ethics
4. Bioethics and theology: what place for ecclesial and social issues?
5. Assuming necessary tensions: A sexual and family ethics in the prism of medicine and Christian ethics. Elements of fundamental theology for Christian discernment.
6. Around a singular question, "play" an ethics committee.
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | · mobilize the documentary, paper and computer sources of the main books of bioethics. · listen to others, develop a capacity for discernment in the fields of contemporary bioethical thought, particularly in relation to faith and theology. · synthesize his/her thoughts and communicate them - orally and in writing - in a simple language, audible in a multidisciplinary field. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Evaluation methods
- The student will demonstrate his/her ability to understand and synthesize three articles inherent in bioethics, including one in English.
- The student will prepare a "role play" featuring a multidisciplinary ethics commission.
- The course will be followed by an oral (prepared) examination on two questions: one relative to one chapter of the course, another one referring to a more critical and synthetic understanding of the whole course.
- The student will prepare a "role play" featuring a multidisciplinary ethics commission.
- The course will be followed by an oral (prepared) examination on two questions: one relative to one chapter of the course, another one referring to a more critical and synthetic understanding of the whole course.
Other information
without object
Faculty or entity
TEBI
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Bachelor in religious studies
Certificat universitaire en théologie (fondements)
Additionnal module in Religious Studies
Minor in Christian Theology
Minor in Sciences of Religions (openness)
Minor in Sciences of Religions (discipline to complement the major)