Aims & Learning Objectives:
Aims: To introduce students to moral and ethical issues relating to contemporary biology. After taking this course the students should be able to:
* discuss some of the bio-ethical dilemmas challenging modern society;
* acquire, through individual study as well as class participation, a detailed knowledge base, and
* apply critical thinking skills relating to a variety of ethical issues.
Content:
This course will consider ethical issues seleted from a range of biology-linked subject areas including: transgenics and GMOs, embryo research, pesticide use, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, biopiracy (IPR), gene therapy, biology in the media, factory farming, animal biotechnology etc.
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