GCL 187

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Morality, Methods, and Medicine: Formal and Philosophical Approaches to Health in Society

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Credit: 3 hours.

Interdisciplinary, experiential Grand Challenge Learning course in Health & Wellness. Exploration of the ways methodological and moral principles interact to inform policy choices related to health and society; consideration of topics of ethical and public policy concern (e.g., abortion, animal experimentation, drug and trials, organ donation, vaccination, and provision of healthcare), with an emphasis on relevant formal, quantitative tools (e.g., probability, statistics, decision theory, modal logic, and graphical causal modeling).

This course is intended for first and second year students.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

Quantitative Reasoning II

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GCL 187 class schedule data for spring 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	65054	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	143 Henry Administration Bldg	Livengood, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Quant Reasoning II course. Section Info: In GCL 187, we will be exploring the ways that methodological and moral principles interact to informpolicy choices related to health and society. We will consider several topics of ethical and public policy concern, including abortion, experiments on animals, drug and medical device trials, organ donation, vaccination, and the provision of healthcare. We will be developing and critically reflecting on formal, quantitative tools relevant to investigating each topic we consider. Includes a group experiential project involving drafting health policies. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing.