How should we distribute essential resources like ventilators and hospital beds in a pandemic?
Should we allow scientists to experiment with the human genome?
Should doctors be forced to provide certain services, even if they believe that those services are unethical?
This program is designed for anyone who needs the knowledge and expertise to navigate questions like these successfully. If you face challenging bioethical issues in your professional life, our Master of Bioethics is for you.
Why choose this degree?
In our Master of Bioethics, you will explore the major bioethical issues of our time with world-leading experts at your side. Our graduates will:
- Learn to apply a structured approach to bioethical decision- making, which integrates a wide range of perspectives, disciplines and methodologies.
- Study with internationally renowned scholars across our Schools of Medicine, Law and Philosophy & Theology.
- Hear from guest lecturers across the globe, many of whom have inside experience of bioethical issues in health care.
- Combine coursework with independent research, giving you strong foundations and allowing you to tailor the program to your personal interests.
- Explore human nature with Socrates and Plato, debate the ethics of cutting-edge issues like transhumanism and medical AI, and be welcomed into a fast-growing community of inquiry.
- Learn how to debate about bioethical issues in the public sphere.
- Study online, from anywhere in Australia.
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This course is available in the following study modes:
Entry Requirements
There are no formal academic requirements
Applicants must have:
- a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a related field of study, such as medicine, health sciences, life sciences, law, philosophy or social sciences, and
- at least one year of full-time (or equivalent) related professional experience, or a related postgraduate qualification.
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About The University of Notre Dame Australia
In today’s world, thinking critically and creatively are essential life skills.
Notre Dame degrees, based in the Catholic intellectual tradition of liberal education, equip students with an increased ability to think and reason, a vital advantage not only during study but far beyond to their professional and personal lives.
Students are encouraged to expand their minds. They learn to think creatively and critically, to see the world, its opportunities and their place in it more clearly. They learn to learn for life.
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