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FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / MBG 419 - MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS

Code: MBG 419 Course Title: BIOETHICS Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 ECTS: 3
Year/Semester of Study 4 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer MUSA KAR (musa.kar@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this lecture is to discuss applications on living organisms of modern science and technology on moral grounds and to explain structure of the bioethics theories.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Can explain the concepts of ethics and bioethics. PO-8 Develop an awareness of continuous learning in relation with modern technology
PO-9 Find out new methods to improve his/her knowledge
PO-11 Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues
PO-12 Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility
Examination
LO-2 Can known the ethics rules and obtaining the necessary permits in biology. PO-9 Find out new methods to improve his/her knowledge
PO-11 Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues
PO-12 Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility
Examination
LO-3 Can explain the limits of science in an ethical framework. PO-11 Apply biological concepts to personal, social, economical, technological and ethical issues
PO-12 Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility
PO-13 Obtain knowledge about current issues in the field of molecular biology and genetics
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Bioethics and the history of bioethics, scientific freedom and autonomy of scientific concepts, ethical thinking, ethics rules and obtaining the necessary permits in biology, cloning and the occurrence of new forms of life, the limits of science in an ethical framework.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Philosophy and contemporary world problems, philosophizing Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
2 Theories of ethics and bioethics Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
3 What is the bioethics ? History of Bioethics Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
4 Culture, gender, law, theology and bioethics Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
5 Moral and technical knowledge, the concept of Moral Limits Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
6 Scientific freedom, bioethics and scientific autonomy Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
7 Ethic thinking and clinical and cultural dimensions Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
8 mid-term exam
9 Modern philosophy and modern medicine Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
10 The value of life, death, kill and, euthanasia Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
11 Personal identity Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
12 Human cloning, the creation of new life forms and development Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
13 Personality, the embryo 's moral position, the human being Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
14 Killing animals and killing people Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
15 Review Explaining, Question and answer teaching method
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
Required Course instruments and materials
Text Notes

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 2 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 2 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 2 14 28
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 6 12
       b) Search in internet/Library 3 6 18
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 2 5 10
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 5 10
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 2 5 10
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 90