Sessional Lecturer: CHLTeaching Bioethics

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Date Posted: 09/18/2026 Req : 50237 Faculty/Division: Dalla Lana School of Public Health Department: Dalla Lana School of Public Health Campus:St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Course

Description:

CHL
3002H is a 0.5 FCE elective course designed for the Master of Health Sciences (MHSc) in Bioethics program. The MHSc in Bioethics is a two-year professional Master’s degree program. Its students are early and mid-career professionals who work in healthcare, public health or other health-related settings. The MHSc in Bioethics has a hybrid program format with both in-person and online components.

CHL 3002H is a hybrid course with the in-person component conducted during a Residency Week in March at the University of Toronto on the St. George Campus and the online component conducted during eight 2.5-hr synchronous online seminar sessions scheduled through the Winter Term (see Schedule below).

CHL
3002H is an advanced graduate course focused on fostering skills and attributes requisite for teaching bioethics across diverse audiences. This course consciously utilizes a pedagogy of solidarity to teaching and learning bioethics, acknowledging that educational encounters transform both teacher and learner, and are inherently relational, intentional, and have an ethical imperative. No knowledge is neutral or free from relations of power, and knowledge exchange activities related to bioethics education need to be thoughtfully constructed for transformative and solidaric learning.

Accordingly, “teaching bioethics” is understood as two-way knowledge exchange activities, and an inherent obligation for those engaged in any capacity with the trans-disciplinary field of bioethics. A core endeavor throughout will be critically reflecting on the questions:
What does a bioethics educator want to transform their environment into through bioethics education? Why, and how?

Course Learning Objectives: by the end of the course, students will be able to:

• identify the hidden curricula in their health care environment and opportunities for engaging with enhanced sensitivity to ethics-related issues
• gain familiarity with principles of adult learning, learning styles, and teaching modalities for engaging in bioethics education
• design a curriculum ready for implementation and evaluation that is geared toward addressing bioethical issues in their health care context
• apply bioethics concepts and theories that undergird purpose and approach in constructing a curriculum for bioethics education
• demonstrate confidence in raising ethical issues for deliberation in the context of conducting ethics educational initiatives
• engage in a critical, reflective stance in relation to the role and influence of bioethics norms, and to constantly querying their positionalities towards transformative teaching in their own professional practice

Class Schedule
:

• In-Person: MHSc Residency Week – Mar 2 (8:30am-5:00pm)
• Online:
  Seminar Sessions – Thursdays, 9-11:30 am on Jan 7 & 28, Feb 11 & 25, March 18 and April 1

Sessional dates
:
January to April 2027

(Salary inclusive of 4% or 6% vacation pay, where applicable)

Please note that should rates stipulated in the Collective Agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Minimum Qualifications
:
Graduate degree in Bioethics with a focus on healthcare ethics and bioethics education. Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of bioethics, and pedagogical theories of adult education, particularly related to professional learners. Experience with the development and implementation of bioethics curriculum for professionals. Experience teaching…