Graduate Diploma of Bioethics


Course information

Course code: 1158
Clayton campus
Full fee paying: subject fee $1650; course fee $6600
Overseas students: subject fee $2250; course fee $9000
Attendance not required

Aims

This course aims to provide an interdisciplinary education for health care professionals, teachers in the health care field, and others with a general interest in bioethics. It also aims to develop and extend an individual's understanding of the nature of ethical issues in health care.

Entry requirements

The course is available to those with:
(a) a degree in medicine or any other health science, in law, the biological or social sciences, or in a branch of the humanities, such as philosophy (or other degree approved by the faculty board), requiring the equivalent of not less than three years full-time study in an approved tertiary institution; or
(b) qualifications and experience which in the opinion of the faculty board are a suitable preparation for study in bioethics. One example of what faculty board considers suitable preparation for this course is where candidates have a General Nursing Certificate plus not less than five years of documented professional experience at a senior level, provided that such experience includes some professional writing and research, and that this experience is verified by two references from suitably qualified people.

Course structure

The course

The course is normally taken part time over two years by distance education. Full-time admission may be possible in certain cases, such as where an applicant has already completed some formal study in ethics or philosophy.
There are four separate subjects in the Graduate Diploma of Bioethics, which are taken in the following sequence:

Year one

Year two

Assessment

Assessment for each subject is based on a combination of essays and a take-home exam. Students must also keep a journal, in which they complete set activities.

Credits/exemptions

Those who have completed an ethics subject at an approved tertiary institution may apply for exemption from CHB4101 Ethics.

Further information

For more information, contact Dr John McKie, Centre for Human Bioethics, telephone (03) 9905 4278 or fax (03) 9905 3279, email john.mckie@arts.monash.edu.au

Completed applications

Completed applications are to be forwarded to the distance education coordinator, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, by 18 September 1998 to be considered for a first-round offer.

Details of year-one subjects

  • CHB4101: Ethics
  • CHB4102: Questions of life and death