Accelerated BA / MA in Health Care Ethics
This accelerated program is perfect for the excellent student who is primed for a career in the health sciences or professional ethics and wants to investigate critical moral and methodological questions to evaluate healthcare institutions and practices.
To this end, you may take 9 hours of graduate (600-level) classes while you are an undergrad, and apply those hours to your BA. Then, you need only 24 hours of additional graduate coursework to complete the Applied Philosophy - Health Care Ethics MA.
The guidelines for this accelerated BA/MA track are as follows:
- Apply for the accelerated program no later than the end of your junior year.
- Your GPA -- both overall and in the major -- must be at least 3.35.
- Graduate application to the Applied Philosophy - Health Care Ethics MA program is still required.
- Up to 9 hours of graduate credit may be applied to the BA.
Sample Curriculum for Accelerated BA/MA in Health Care Ethics:
BA-only courses (assumes Bioethics track)
(24 hours = 8 courses)
PHIL 300
PHIL 301 & 303
PHIL 321
PHIL 323
PHIL 311, 412, or 512
PHIL 341 WR or 356 WR
PHIL 502 capstone
Double-counted credits
(9 hours = 3 courses)
PHIL/BETH 680
PHIL/BETH 681
PHIL/BETH 682
MA-only courses
(24 hours = 8 courses)
BETH 683
BETH 684
BETH 636 OR LAW 980
BETH 685
4 electives
For more information, please contact the Program Director. We're looking forward to working with you!