APG5394 Questions of life and death
Faculty of Arts
APG5394 Questions of life and death is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2020. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
- Workload
- 288 hours
- per semester
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before APG5394
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After APG5394
No unit lists APG5394 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibition: APG4394, APR5394
Overview
This unit examines a variety of ethical issues concerning the beginning and end of life, such as the morality of abortion, infanticide, and causing death. The unit also deals with the ethical problems raised by new reproductive research and biomedical technologies, such as embryo experimentation, cloning, genetic counselling, genetic therapy and genetic engineering. There will be discussion of a range of philosophical problems central to these issues, including the sanctity of life doctrine, notions of potentiality, the nature of personhood, the acts/omissions distinction, and the definition of death.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for APG5394.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Uncover a variety of important ethical and philosophical questions underlying discussions of issues regarding the beginning and the end of life, and new reproductive and biomedical technologies;
- 2
Analyse these ethical and philosophical issues in detail, drawing on the different ethical theories discussed in APG4393/5393 Ethics;
- 3
Make informed judgements about the ethics of certain biomedical technologies and clinical practices, and the ethics of various decisions regarding the beginning and end of life
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Anton Allen
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Anton Allen
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG5394?
APG5394 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is APG5394 offered?
APG5394 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
How much work is APG5394?
The handbook expects about 288 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.