Admission requirements
Students of the master Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences Industrial Pharmacy specialisation (mandatory course) and other students of the master Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Description
This course has two goals – the first is to introduce some philosophical ideas and theories that could be the most relevant to ethical issues and problems you might face in the biopharmaceutical sciences. This short module will function as a brief introduction to ethical theory, professional ethics and business ethics. The second goal is to connect these ideas and theories with discussion of concrete cases in the biopharmaceutical sciences, in order to see how these ideas can be applied to the real world, and how they might assist with making difficult ethical decisions.
This course aims to:
Provide an overview of the most common ethical theories.
Provide insight into ethical obligations of a professional (or “qualified person”).
Provide tools and considerations to assist in making difficult ethical decisions, and in confronting ethical dilemmas.
Course objectives
By the end of the course, the student is be able to:
Describe and relate ethical theory and professional ethics to the biopharmaceutical sciences and industrial pharmacy.
Identify ethical dilemmas, and reason your way, based on ethical considerations, to a decision when faced with difficult situations.
Timetable
This course is scheduled for semester 1, period 2.
In MyTimetable, you can find all course and programme schedules, allowing you to create your personal timetable. Activities for which you have enrolled via MyStudyMap will automatically appear in your timetable.
Additionally, you can easily link MyTimetable to a calendar app on your phone, and schedule changes will be automatically updated in your calendar. You can also choose to receive email notifications about schedule changes. You can enable notifications in Settings after logging in.
Questions? Watch the video, read the instructions, or contact the ISSC helpdesk.
Note: Joint Degree students from Leiden/Delft need to combine information from both the Leiden and Delft MyTimetables to see a complete schedule. This video explains how to do it.
The detailed course schedule will be published on Brightspace course module.
Mode of instruction
Lectures, tutorials (case study and discussion), self-tuition.
Assessment method
This course will be concluded by an individual assignment, based on which the final grade will be determined.
The final grade is expressed using an integer between 1 and 10 and can be rounded off/up to a half integer, with the exception of the grade 5.5. Final grades between 5.50 and 5.99 will be rounded up to 6.0. The final grade should be 6.0 to successfully complete this course.
More detail about the assignment, and the grading criteria, will be made available on the Brightspace module for this course.
Reading list
All readings for this course will be made available on Brightspace.
Registration
Every student has to register for courses with the enrolment tool MyStudymap. There are two registration periods per year: registration for the fall semester opens in July and registration for the spring semester opens in December. Please see this page for more information.
Please note that it is compulsory to both preregister and confirm your participation for every exam and retake. Not being registered for a course means that you are not allowed to participate in the final exam of the course. If you want to retake the exam of the course without following the lectures, you have to contact the coordinator of the course to see if this is possible (you would have to passed the other assignments of the course in the earlier year).
Confirming your exam participation is possible until ten days before the exam.
Extensive FAQ's on MyStudymap can be found [here] (https://studentuniversiteitleiden.screenstepslive.com/a/1490971-all-about-planning-and-enrollments).
Contact
Coordinator of the Industrial Pharmacy specialisation: t.b.d.
Remarks
Maximum 15 students. Students of the specialisation Industrial Pharmacy of the master programme Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences have guaranteed places.
Lectures are in English.
This information is without prejudice. Alterations can be made for next year.
Software
Starting from the 2024/2025 academic year, the Faculty of Science will use the software distribution platform Academic Software. Through this platform, you can access the software needed for specific courses in your studies. For some software, your laptop must meet certain system requirements, which will be specified with the software. It is important to install the software before the start of the course. More information about the laptop requirements can be found on the student website.