Bioethics Field of study: Biotechnology
Programme code: W2-S2BT19.2022

Module name: Bioethics
Module code: 2BT_01A
Programme code: W2-S2BT19.2022
Semester:
  • summer semester 2025/2026
  • summer semester 2024/2025
  • summer semester 2023/2024
Language of instruction: depending on the choice
Form of verification: course work
ECTS credits: 2
Description:
The "bioethics" module aims to familiarize the student and prepare him / her to assess various situations related to human interference in the phenomenon of life. The premises and precursors of bioethics, including environmental ethics, will be presented, as well as various directions of this thinking. Human attitudes towards living organisms and nature, and various solutions concerning exemplary situations of environmental conflicts will be subjected to critical analysis. Participants will be acquainted with various ethical aspects related to the use of genetically modified organisms, including, for example, the use of genetically modified plants in agriculture genetic modification of animals. They will discuss in detail the impact of using genetically modified crops in agriculture on farmers, consumers, and the biota. The ethical aspects related to using GMOs in environmental protection and the arguments for and against genetically modified food will be analyzed. In addition, the sources of contemporary pro-environmental thinking will be presented, mainly based on the achievements of modern scientific ecology.
Prerequisites:
general knowledge of biology at the undergraduate level
Key reading:
according to the Syllabus
Learning outcome of the module Codes of the learning outcomes of the programme to which the learning outcome of the module is related [level of competence: scale 1-5]
Student explains the state of knowledge about the functioning of the biosphere, describes the causes of the ecological crisis and presents the multilateral links between man and nature [2BT_01_1]
 2BT_W01_P [4/5] 2BT_W04_P [4/5]
Student justifies ethical important dimensions in modern biotechnology. [2BT_01_2]
 2BT_W01_P [5/5] 2BT_W05_P [5/5]
Student analyzes the assumptions of the main trends in bioethics and environmental ethics, knows its leading representatives and precursors [2BT_01_3]
 2BT_W01_P [5/5] 2BT_W03_P [5/5]
Student lists the most important ethical regulations contained in the applicable legal documents concerning the nature and living organisms [2BT_01_4]
 2BT_W01_P [4/5] 2BT_W03_P [4/5]
Student proposes ethically conditioned solutions to diverse human activities which interact nature and living organisms [2BT_01_5]
 2BT_U01_P [4/5] 2BT_U04_P [4/5] 2BT_U05_P [4/5]
Student recognizes the motives of own decisions regarding behaviors affecting other life forms [2BT_01_6]
 2BT_U02_P [5/5] 2BT_U04_P [5/5]
Student selects and presents possible ways of exploitation of nature without destroying it [2BT_01_7]
 2BT_U01_P [5/5] 2BT_U02_P [5/5] 2BT_U05_P [5/5]
selects and presents ways of exploiting nature without destroying it [2BT_01_8]
 2BT_K01_P [4/5]
Type Description Codes of the learning outcomes of the module to which assessment is related
Coursework [2BT_01_w_1]
according to the Syllabus
 2BT_01_1 2BT_01_2 2BT_01_3 2BT_01_4 2BT_01_5 2BT_01_6 2BT_01_7 2BT_01_8
Form of teaching Student's own work Assessment of the learning outcomes
Type Description (including teaching methods) Number of hours Description Number of hours
lecture [2BT_01_fs_1]
Lecture in the form of a multimedia presentation, using Internet resources: presentation of interviews, famous lectures and films
 15
Working with textbooks, reading supplementary materials (e.g. pdf-s articles, links to websites), preparing to a final test
 15 Coursework [2BT_01_w_1]
discussion classes [2BT_01_fs_2]
Discussions of selected ethical dilemmas in biology; case study applied to specific environmental conflicts; educational games used to consolidate content from lectures and acquire complementary knowledge of the issues discussed. Possibility of consultations: Individual work with students on the preparation of a final essay
 15
Working with the textbooks, reading of supplementary materials (pdf-s articles, links to websites), writing of an essay
 15 Coursework [2BT_01_w_1]
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Syllabuses (USOSweb)
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