ATS1264 Bioethics, justice and the law
Faculty of Arts
ATS1264 Bioethics, justice and the law is a level 1, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2021 in Semester 2 at Caulfield and Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2021
- Semester 2
- Caulfield, Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 4 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2021 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ATS1264
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After ATS1264
No unit lists ATS1264 as a prerequisite in the 2021 handbook.
Overview
The unit investigates how the law and public policy should respond to advances in medicine and biotechnology, and the role of justice in these contexts. Examples of possible topics covered include: whether employers and insurance companies should be permitted to discriminate among applicants on the basis of genetic profile; whether it is discriminatory to select against sex or disability in future children; whether the law should protect individuals' genetic privacy or whether we have a duty to share our genetic knowledge; whether the law should act paternalistically to prevent people from harming themselves or making bad health decisions; whether people who are responsible for their own bad health should receive lower medical priority, and whether advances in knowledge in the biological/genetic bases for behaviour give us reason to doubt individual responsibility.
Offerings in 2021
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Caulfield | On campus |
| Second semester | Clayton | On campus |
Assessment
- Engagement tasksMixed mode15%
- Critical analysisEssay15%
- Argumentative EssayEssay35%
- Take home assessment35%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Familiarity with the key philosophical approaches to discrimination, autonomy, responsibility and equality as they apply to debates within bioethics;
- 2
Skills enabling them to think critically about key ethical, policy and legal issues raised by recent advances in medicine and biotechnology;
- 3
The ability to make informed judgements about those ethical, policy and legal issues.
Workload and teaching
- Tutorials24 hours
- Teaching approachResearch activities
- Teaching approachActive learning
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
This unit allows students to develop their research skills by engaging in structured inquiry using a systematic approach and discipline-specific methodologies.
This unit engages students in actively applying their knowledge, skills and attributes in interactive, collaborative and reflective activities.
Where it fits
ATS1264 is part of 1 area of study in the 2021 handbook.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Catherine Mills
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Garry Young
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS1264?
ATS1264 has no prerequisites.
When is ATS1264 offered?
In 2021, ATS1264 runs in Semester 2 at Caulfield and Clayton.
How much work is ATS1264?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does ATS1264 have an exam?
No. ATS1264 has 4 assessment tasks and no exam.
Which majors and minors include ATS1264?
ATS1264 is part of Bioethics.