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Information for new and current students
This page contains useful information for new and current students in our program. 

Please bookmark this page as you will find many helpful links that are regularly updated.

 

Key Calendar Dates:  http://luc.edu/academics/schedules/index.shtml

 

For more information, select topic:

 

Blackboard Access

Course Registration

Course Drop/Withdrawal

Degree Status Change

Email Access

Financial Aid

Graduation/Certificate Application Forms

Graduate School Policies

Health Insurance (Online Waiver)

Leave of Absence

Library Access

Re-Application

Transcripts

Tuition Inquiries

Spring Courses 2009

Summer Courses 2009

Fall Courses 2009

Spring Courses 2010

 

 

Passwords: The Locus/Blackboard password expires every 90 days without notice. Passwords can be changed at PAM (Personal Account Manager): https://pellonia.it.luc.edu/iuadmin

Both the master's and certificate programs require continuous registration (excluding summer). This means that students who matriculate into this program should plan on registering for at least one course a semester. If a student needs to take more than one semester off, please complete the Leave of Absence form found here: http://www.luc.edu/gradschool/servicesandresources_forms.shtml

  ..\Files\pdf\Change of Degree Seeking Status.pdf

 

  • Email Access:
    University communication will be sent to an email address provided to students by Loyola (including Blackboard messages) . If you are unable to check your Loyola email regularly, please set up for your Loyola email to be forwarded to a personal email account by using PAM (Personal Account Manager):
    https://pellonia.it.luc.edu/iuadmin

 

  • Financial Aid: 

    The Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA) works with both graduate and undergraduate students to finance a Loyola education. In addition to putting together customized assistance packages using various financial resources, OSFA provides graduate students with assistance or more information about federal financial aid programs, alternative student loans and more:

    http://www.luc.edu/finaid/graduate.shtml

 

  • Graduation/Certificate Application Forms:

    December Graduates: submission deadline - August 1st
    May & August Graduates:
    submission deadline - December 1st


    Master's Degree - The Graduation Application Process is as follows:
    1. Go to Locus and log on.
    2. Click on the Graduation Application Checklist. On this “Graduation Application”

        page, read all pertinent information relating to the “Graduate Application Checklist”.
    3. Click on the Declaration of Intent to Graduate form (PDF). You must type in all

        pertinent information. Print out the form, then submit to the Graduate School Office

        along with the $75.00 application fee, made payable to: Loyola University Chicago.

         The Graduate School (LUMC)

         c/o Judith Hartwig
         2160 S. First Ave.,  Bldg 105, Room 2897
         Maywood, IL 60153
        
    4. Your diploma will be mailed to your permanent address as recorded in LOCUS.

        Please verify that your permanent address in LOCUS is accurate. If you wish to have

        your diploma mailed to another address, please complete the Temporary Diploma

        Mailing Address form (PDF) and e-mail it to: diploma@luc.edu. (Please look on the

        bottom of the “Declaration of Intent to Graduate” form in order to change this

        information) Please check this webpage regarding diploma distribution timeline:

        http://www.luc.edu/regrec/diplomas.shtml#distribution
    5. Check LOCUS for any holds that would delay the receipt of your diploma.

    Certificate

    Please complete the "Declaration of Intent to Receive a Certificate" form to receive your Certificate.  Please fax form to: 708/327-9209

  • Graduate School Policies, please visit the LUC Graduate School web site: http://www.luc.edu/gradschool/academics_policies.shtml

 

 

 

  • Library Access:
    For access to library online resources, please contact: archer@lumc.edu
    You will need to supply your name, email address and proposed month/year of graduation- completion. Access passwords will come directly from the library staff via email.

 

 

 

 

Spring 2009 Courses (January 12 - April 24, 2009)

Registration is open!  Texts can be ordered through Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Highlighted books are available elsewhere, please click on book for direct link for ordering.

 

  • Ethics Across the Care Continuum, BEHP 403 (class #5932)
     
    Barnard D, Towers A, Boston P, Lambrinidou Y. (2009) Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care. Oxford University Press.
      Black K. (1996) A Healing Homilectic: Preaching and Disability. Abingdon Press.
      Cohn J. (2007) Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the Price. Harper Collins.
      Moody HR. (1992) Ethics in an Aging Society. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Research Ethics, BEHP 405 (class #4071)
      Macrina FL. (2005) Scientific Integrity: Text and Cases in Responsible Conduct of Research, 3rd Ed. ASM Press (American Society for Microbiology).
      Ackerman T & Strong C. (1989) A Casebook of Medical Ethics. Oxford University Press.
      In addition, please learn to access or procure online copies of: The Belmont Report, 45 CFR 46, Institutional Review Board Guidebook.
  • Principles of Health Care Ethics, BEHP 406 (class #4072)
     
    Beauchamp T & Childress J. (2001) Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 5th Edition. Oxford University Press.
      Engelhardt, HT. (1996) Foundations of Bioethics, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press.
      Gert, Culver & Clouser. (2006) Bioethics: A Systematic Approach. Oxford University Press.
      Charon & Montello. (2002) Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics. Routledge Press.
      Hester DM. (2001) Community as Healing: Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters. Rowan & Littlefield.
  • Social Science & Bioethics, BEHP 407 (class #4073)
      Fadiman A. (1997) The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures.  The Noonday Press.
      King N, Henderson G & Stein J (Eds). (1999) Beyond Regulation: Ethics in Human Subjects Research. University of NC Press.
      Brandt A & Rozin P (Eds). (1997) Morality and Health. Routledge Press.
  • Ethics, Genetics & Health Policy, BEHP 408 (class #5935)
      Buchanan A, Brock DW, Daniels N & Wikler D. (2001) From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. Cambridge University Press.
      Shannon T (Ed) (2005) Genetics: Science, Ethics and Public Policy.
      Burley JF & Harris J (Eds). (2004) A Companion to Genethics (Blackwell Companion to Philosophy Series). Blackwell Publishers.
  • SpTp: Catholic Bioethics in Practice, BEHP 491 (class #3135)
      Ashley B, deBlois J & O'Rourke K. (2007) Health Care Ethics: A Catholic Theological Analysis, 5th Edition. Georgetown University Press.
      O'Rourke K & Boyle P. (1999) Medical Ethics: Sources of Catholic Teachings, 3rd Edition. Georgetown University Press.
      Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, 4th Edition (2001), United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. 
    Available online at: http://www.usccb.org/bishops/directives.shtml
    Master's Research Capstone, BEHP 492 (class #2499)
  • Independent Study, BEHP 493 (class #2498)
     

Summer 2009 Courses (June 29 - August 2)

Registration Opens February 9, 2009

 

 

Fall 2009 Courses (August 24 - December 4)

Registration Opens April 9, 2009

 

  • Clinical Bioethics, BEHP 401
  • Justice & Health Care, BEHP 402
  • Biomedical Ethics & The Law, BEHP 404
  • Principles of Health Care Ethics, BEHP 406
  • Religion and Bioethics, BEHP 409
  • Public Health Ethics, BEHP 411
  • History of Medicine & Bioethics, BEHP 413
  • Master's Research Capstone, BEHP 492
  • Independent Study, BEHP 493

 

Spring 2010 Courses (January 18 - May 5)

Registration Opens November 13, 2009

 

  • Research Ethics, BEHP 405
  • Principles of Health Care Ethics, BEHP 406
  • Social Science & Bioethics, BEHP 407
  • Ethics, Genetics & Health Policy, BEHP 408
  • Moral Theology for Catholic Bioethics, BEHP 414
  • Master's Research Capstone, BEHP 492
  • Independent Study, BEHP 493

 

 


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