Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, Suite N504 Boyton, 410 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-624-9440; fax: 612-624-9108)

The Center for Bioethics offers a master's degree and a graduate minor in bioethics. Although bioethics has deep roots in the discipline of philosophy and maintains strong ties to that discipline, it has grown to be an essentially interdisciplinary field. Similarly, over its 25-plus year history, the Center for Bioethics has become a well-established and internationally recognized interdisciplinary center. This truly interdisciplinary approach is endorsed by the University, since the center is a program that spans the Academic Health Center and interacts throughout the University. The center's faculty represents a broad array of fields, with backgrounds in philosophy, medicine, nursing, public health, health policy, law, education, family social science, and religious studies. The faculty has expertise in clinical ethics, research ethics, and ethics in health policy. The center embraces a robust mission of public engagement. Its faculty influences policy nationally and internationally on a number of issues including decision-making at end of life, research on human subjects, ethics and genetic technologies, and public health preparedness.

A doctoral student must complete a minimum of 14 graduate credits in bioethics offered outside the major field: 8 credits of required courses and 6 credits of electives. A master's student must complete a minimum of 8 graduate credits in bioethics offered outside the major field: 6 credits of required courses and 2 credits of electives. All students must take BTHX 5010 - Bioethics Proseminar and one moral theory course, preferably BTHX 5300 - Foundations of Bioethics. Courses should be chosen in consultation with the bioethics director of graduate studies. Courses that satisfy requirements and serve as electives can be found at http://www.ahc.umn.edu/bioethics/education/graduate/home.html.