PHILOS 155BTopics in Medical Ethics
Philosophy · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Course 155A is not requisite to 155B. Intensive investigation of one or two topics or philosophical issues in medical ethics, such as paternalism, truth-telling, physician-patient relationship, distributional justice, autonomy and medical decision making, and research ethics. Topics announced each term. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.