What is an outline for bioethics club?

What’s an Outline for Bioethics Club?

Now is the time to decide whether you want to go with the the research option, or the outreach option for your capstone project. Next steps for both are below.

The outline is the skeleton, or the scaffolding, of your research or your outreach project. You can change the structure later on if necessary, but to start it’s helpful to have these sections at this point – see 1 to 7 below.

  1. Research option

1. is where you begin to introduce your topic, why it’s important to you, and why it’s important right now.

2. This is your research question – see the literature survey you completed earlier.

3. Is where to note down the relevant facts: what’s the science here? Is there a legal piece that’s important too?

You might just have a line or two for 4. and 5.

Leave 6 and 7 blank for now, unless you have some provisional thoughts you want to get down.

  1. Introduce your topic
  2. Frame the ethical question you are interested in
  3. Explain the relevant facts
  4. Determine who or what is affected by the issue (i.e., identify the stakeholders)
  5. Determine and explain the relevant ethical considerations
  6. Support your bioethical conclusion and recommendations
  7. Consider further questions that now arise from your work

     2) Outreach project option

The outreach project option makes space for students who might not want to dig into research a particular topic in this field, but who are motivated to engage the larger community to consider and discuss a bioethical topic that’s not getting enough attention at the moment. What important issue is out there in our world that you want to direct attention to?

Here’s an overview of the community outreach project option to help you get started. Here are a number of samples of outreach projects that have worked well. Think big and get creative, and start with the question: what topic is important to you that you want to get other people discussing. This is a first step to making a difference, making a positive change in the world.

Once you have settled on a) a topic, you need b) a means of engaging the community about your topic. Will it be a work of digital art or sculpture? An informational leaflet or interview? A computer game or community event? Explore what others have done, what you think fits your topic and your own interests and skills!