A4003 Graduate Certificate of Bioethics
Faculty of Arts
Graduate Certificate of Bioethics (A4003) is a 0.5 years full-time, 24-credit-point, graduate certificate course from the Faculty of Arts, taught at Clayton. Map your units semester by semester with the MonMap planner.
- Credit points
- 24
- Duration
- 0.5 years full time
- 1 years part time
- Campus
- Clayton
- Online, Multi-modal
This is the 2024 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Overview
This course is particularly well suited if you are a health care professional or scientist who faces complex ethical issues in your working life. The course is also valuable if you are involved in the development of public policy and law, or simply wish to explore issues of public concern. The course is designed in ways to suit you with little or no prior educational background in ethics or philosophy, and is also suitable for philosophy graduates with an interest in further studies of bioethics.
Teaching in the course is designed to improve your analytical skills, encourage you to think critically about the ethical issues raised, and to develop independent and well-informed views about the ethical and philosophical questions addressed in the course.
Course structure
Core units12 credit points
Additional units12 credit points
The handbook's description of this structure
The course comprises 24 credit points of study which provide knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required of skilled practitioners working in a range of fields addressing bioethics.
Course Progression map
The course progression map provides guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.
The course comprises 24 points.
Units are 6 points unless otherwise stated.
You must complete 12 points from:
- APG5393 Ethical theory (12 points)
- APG5394 Ethics of life and death (12 points)
You must complete 12 points from:
- APG5079 Research ethics
- APG5729 Clinical ethics
- APG5081 Public health ethics
- APG5110 Ethical issues in human genomics
- APG5486 Ethics of human reproduction
Learning outcomes
These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework and Monash Graduate Attributes.
Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will be able to:
- 1
identify and explain global debates surrounding ethical issues in policy, governance and research;
- 2
recognise and discuss contemporary best practice in applied ethics, healthcare ethics, research ethics and policy;
- 3
analyse and critically evaluate the key texts and cultural products pertaining to the field of bioethics;
- 4
communicate bioethical issues to professional and non-professional audiences.
Entry requirements
English language
Monash Level A, that is: IELTS (Academic): 6.5 overall (no band lower than 6.0); or Pearson Test of English (Academic): score of 58 overall with no band lower than 50; or TOEFL Internet-based test: score of 79 overall with minimum scores: Writing: 21, Listening: 12, Reading: 13 and Speaking: 18; or Equivalent approved English test
More information
Progression to further studies
Successful completion of this course may provide a pathway to the Master of Bioethics (A6002).
Other information
This course is particularly well suited if you are a health care professional or scientist who faces complex ethical issues in your working life. The course is also valuable if you are involved in the development of public policy and law, or simply wish to explore issues of public concern. The course is designed in ways to suit you with little or no prior educational background in ethics or philosophy, and is also suitable for philosophy graduates with an interest in further studies of bioethics.
Teaching in the course is designed to improve your analytical skills, encourage you to think critically about the ethical issues raised, and to develop independent and well-informed views about the ethical and philosophical questions addressed in the course.
Contacts
- Academic Coordinator
- Professor Justin Oakley
Common questions
How long is Graduate Certificate of Bioethics?
0.5 years full time, 24 credit points. At 24 credit points a semester, that is 1 semesters of full-time study.
Where can I study Graduate Certificate of Bioethics?
At Clayton.
How do I plan my Graduate Certificate of Bioethics units?
Open the course in the MonMap planner. It lays out your semesters, checks prerequisites as you drag units in, and tracks the credit points each requirement still needs.