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

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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

Fall Courses 2008

• Blackboard Access (online course template): http://blackboard.luc.edu
  Blackboard may be accessed by using your LOCUS user ID and Password. Click here to view an audio Power Point introduction to Blackboard.

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

• Course Registration:
  To register, please go to Loyola University's On-line Student Information System (https://locus.luc.edu/).  You can also email registration support at: locus@luc.edu

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

• Course Drop/Withdrawal: 
  Courses drop/withdrawal is done through Locus (https://locus.luc.edu/). The drop/withdrawal schedule can be found here:  http://luc.edu/bursar/withdrawal_policy.shtml
   
• Degree Status Change:
  To matriculate from the Certificate program to the Master's program (or Master's to Certificate), please complete the "Request for a Change of Degree-Seeking Status" form:

  ..\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

• Health Insurance, "Online Waiver to Opt Out"
  Students who take 2 courses a semester, or more, will be billed for mandatory health insurance through Loyola University.  If you wish not to receive this insurance, please go to this webpage and complete the "Online Waiver to Opt Out": 
  https://www.hthstudents.com/group/waiver/waiver_intro.cfm?id=luc0012005xpw

• Leave of Absence (LOA)
  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 a semester (or more) off, please complete the Leave of Absence form found here: http://www.luc.edu/gradschool/servicesandresources_forms.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.

• Re-Application: http://www.luc.edu/gradschool/servicesandresources_forms.shtml
  Reasons for using Re-Application form:
      Status change from non-degree to degree seeking student
      Currently inactive/withdrawn from program
      Returning from Leave of Absence

• Transcripts: http://transcriptrequest.luc.edu/alumni/pages/jsp/
   
• Tuition Inquiries:  http://luc.edu/bursar

Fall 2008 Courses - (August 25 - December 5, 2008)

Please click on book for ordering information!

• Clinical Bioethics, BEHP 401 (class no. 5949)
  - M. Weinberg. 2000/2001. Medical Ethics: Applying Theories and Principles to the Patient Encounter. Prometheus Books; New York.
  - T.F. Ackerman & C. Strong. 1989. A Casebook of Medical Ethics.  Oxford University Press; New York.
  - M.G. Kuczewski & R.L. Pinkus. 1999.  A Casebook for Hospitals: Practical Approaches to Everyday Cases. Georgetown University Press; Washington D.C.
  - American Medical Association, Working Together to End Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, One Physician at a Time (view Disc 1) Ordering information available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/433/health_disp_kit.pdf
• Justice and Health Care, BEHP 402 (class no. 2332)
  - P. Farmer. 2004. Pathologies of Power. Univ of California Press; Berkeley.
  - J. Sachs. 2005. The End of Poverty. Penguin Press.
  - W. Easterly. 2007. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have done So Much Ill and So Little Good. Oxford University Press.
  - B. Levy & V. Sidel, Eds. 2006 Social Injustice and Public Health. Oxford University Press.
  - D. Callahan & A. Wasunna. 2006. Medicine and the Market: Equity V. Choice. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  - M. Powers & R. Faden. 2007. Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy.  Oxford University Press.
• Biomedical Ethics & the Law, BEHP 404 (class no. 2331)
  - J. Menikoff. 2001. Law and Ethics: An Introduction.
  - OPTIONAL: B. Rich. 2001. Strange Bedfellows: How Medical Jurisprudence has Influenced Medical Ethics and Medical Practice.
• Public Health Ethics, BEHP 411 (class no. 5951)
  - S.S. Coughlin, C.L. Soskoline & K.W. Goodman. 1997. Case Studies in Public Health Ethics. American Public Assoc; Washington, D.C.
  - S. Anand, F. Peger & A.K. Sen. 2004. Public Health, Ethics, and Equity. Oxford University Press.
• History of Bioethics, BEHP 413 (class no. 6009)
  - J. Andre. 2002. Bioethics as Practice. Univ of North Carolina Press.
  - R. Baker, et al. 1999. The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA's Code of Ethics has Transformed Physicians' Relationships to Patients, Professionals, and Society. Johns Hopkins Universith Press.
  - A.R. Jonsen. 2000. A Short History of Medical Ethics. Oxford University Press.
  - A.R. Jonsen. 2003. The Birth of Bioethics. Oxford University Press.
  - D.J. Rothman. 1991. Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making.
  - P. Starr. 1982. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry.
• SpTp: Moral Theology for Catholic Bioethics, BEHP 491 (class no. 5952)
• Master's Research Capstone, BEHP 492 (class no. 2334)
• Independence Study, BEHP 493 (class no. 2333)

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