Program Overview
This part-time MSc program in End-of-Life Healthcare Ethics explores ethical issues in healthcare relating to death and dying. The multidisciplinary curriculum develops critical and negotiation skills through lectures, seminars, and online learning. Assessment includes an essay and a seminar presentation. Students have the option of earning a certificate or postgraduate diploma prior to completing the full MSc.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This module is part of a 90 credit MSc in End-of-Life Healthcare Ethics, a multidisciplinary programme that is offered on a part-time basis over 2 years (with exit routes for a Certificate in End-of-Life Healthcare Ethics [30 credits] and a Postgraduate Diploma in End-of-Life Healthcare Ethics [60 credits]).
Outline:
This module aims to develop the critical and reflective skills of students in ethical reasoning, debate and negotiation and facilitates the application of these skills to a range of contested issues in relation to death and dying. Issues addressed include: living and dying well, organ transplantation and the ownership of body parts, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, futility and the allocation of scarce resources, moral disagreement and the limits of ethical reasoning; slippery slope arguments, religious and cultural perspectives on death and dying.
Assessment:
Total Marks 200: 1 x 1,500 word essay (100 marks); Student Seminar Presentation (100 marks).
Teaching:
Teaching Methods include Lectures, Student Led Seminars, Group Discussion, On-line Learning and Self Directed Learning. Students will be encouraged to take one or two modules per annum to a maximum of 15 credits.
