Neuroethics and International Biolaw

Hi everyone, I’m Xenia. I’ll just say a little bit about my ethnic and academic background. If you have any questions, feel free to ask

My mother is Croatian and my father is American of Haitian Creole- and Indo-Afro-American heritage. My stepfather, who raised me with my mom is a Muslim Bosnian, who fled to Germany during the war in the ’90. I live and grew up in Germany, where I currently study at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. I’m enrolled in two separate degree programs. Philosophy is my major in the ‘old program’ of which Magister is the associated degree. This used to be the common degree pursued by humanities students before the Bologna Process. The degree acquired hereby is equivalent to a master’s degree. My two minors in this course of study are Psychology and Zoology. I added Molecular Biology in form of a full-fledged bachelor program after my third semester. So in addition to philosophy as an advanced student (called Hauptstudium in German, which is equivalent to graduate studies)  I have to do the baby steps of undergraduate learning in a different field all over again

Please don’t feel irritated if I put up to many smileys I love smiling and do so often when I talk to people. It’s difficult for me to communicate without body-language and facial expression usually involved in vis-à-vis conversation.

After applying, I wrote a post on how excited I am to participate in this course.

By the way, how about collecting the papers we read for this course on Mendeley? I wrote a review on this program on Blogcritics, mentioning the possibilities it could have for projects as the P2PU.

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