Frontiers in Bioethics & Managing Emerging Technologies
BETH 725
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Frontiers in Bioethics is a two-credit course in which students will learn about emerging technologies and the unique moral considerations raised by these advances. In this course students will gain familiarity with emerging technologies, including current and future neurotechnologies, robotics, artificial intelligence, genomics, synthetic biology, and how bioethics informs these advances and the bioethics implications of technology.
Finally, the course will explore how bioethics considerations may influence policy towards technological advances. Class will be taught in seminar format with an emphasis on group participation. Evaluation will be based on class preparation, participation, and writing assignments as outlined each semester in the syllabus.
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