COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BIOETHICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BMT 5020 BIOETHICS COMPULSORY 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ADILE ÖNIZ

Offered to

Biomedical Tehnologies (English)
Industrial Ph.D. Program In Advanced Biomedical Technologies

Course Objective

The purpose of the course is to provide an insight into bioethics. The sublevels will include animal ethics, human ethics, experimental research ethics and Intellectual property rights and conflict resolution.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Comprehend bioethics
2   Comprehend animal research ethics
3   Comprehend how to be a team member in biological oriented multicentre studies.
4   Comprehend human research

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Discussion of Course outlines
2 Ethics, historical outline
3 Experimental and methodological approach to ethics
4 Ethics in the animal research
5 Human position among other animals and evolutionary prospective
6 Ethical approach from cases -1
7 Ethical approach from cases -2
8 Ethical approach from cases -3
9 Ethics on human studies: noninvasive
10 Ethics on human studies: invasive
11 Ethics on multidisciplinary research
12 Plagiarism, falsification, fabrication
13 Ethics and Intellectual Property Rights
14 Finalizing the course, interactive discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

M.S. Gazzaniga, The Ethical Brain, 2005

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course will be given at an interactive environment. The pre-targeted discussion sessions will improve the comprehension. All class members are expected to attend the lecture hours and take part in the discussions. Besides the lecture, a homework will enable the involvement of student. In addition, one final exam will be given to the students.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Subject focused assignments are assessed according to their content, orderliness and originality. Written final and midterm exams are assessed according to level of attained knowledge.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

murat.ozgoren@deu.edu.tr, adile.oniz@deu.edu.tr,

Office Hours

Monday (Hours: 10.00-12.00)
Please call 4124481 to ask for an appointment.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for final exam 1 2 2
Preparing assignments 1 1 1
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.144
LO.244
LO.354
LO.445

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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