PHIL 315: Biomedical Ethics

This was one of the most interesting courses I took in college.  The semester was split in half, with an introduction to ethics in the first half and examination of specific ethic problems in biomedical fields in the second.  I loved the first half, because I had not had experience with formally studying and debating moral issues in such concrete terms before, and I was always floored when I came into class to find names for problems and ways of thinking that I had touched on in my own thoughts.  The second half was less theoretical and slightly less interesting because we simply learned opposing arguments for ethical dilemmas, and aside from privately deciding which ones we agreed with, there was not as much critical thought required to understand those concepts.  Because of that, part of me wishes I had taken the basic introduction to ethics course so that I could have learned more about the theoretical side of ethics that really interested me.