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BBH 301WValues and Ethics in Biobehavioral Health Research and Practice

3 credits · Biobehavioral Health · Penn State

This course examines bases for choices among values in personal and professional relations in human development processes and supporting services. This class is meant to give students both background knowledge of and practice in the process of ethical decision making. Students will learn the historical, philosophical, and psychological concepts underlying the study of morality and ethics. Course content will include the history and rationale for regulations regarding the ethical practice of research, medicine, and public health.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “at Enrollment BBH 101 (C or better required)”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 2 · Spring (3 programs).

Required in (1)

  • Systems Neuroscience, B.S.

One of the options in (9)

  • Addictions and Recovery, Minor
  • Biobehavioral Health, B.S. (Behrend)
  • Biobehavioral Health, B.S. (Capital)
  • Biobehavioral Health, B.S. (Health and Human Development)
  • Biobehavioral Health, B.S. (University College)
  • Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Minor
  • Ethics, Minor
  • Psychological and Social Sciences, B.A.
  • Psychological and Social Sciences, B.S.
What it opens up

Courses that list BBH 301W as a prerequisite (1)

  • HDFS 480 Health Disparities: Context, Causes, and Consequences