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Over a ten year period interdisciplinary courses in bioethics have been developed at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen. The first course was a voluntary course mainly directed at agronomy students. Recently, two obligatory courses have been developed, one aimed at veterinary students, the other for students in agronomy, agricultural economy and biotechnology. The aim of this paper is to try to give a systematic account of the experiences from developing these courses. First it is being discussed why there is a need for agriculturalists and veterinarians to understand ethics. Secondly the three courses are presented. Two important ideas go through the development of the courses: i) Ethical theory is taught in tandem with real agricultural and veterinary problems and actual issues within agricultural science and veterinary medicine. ii) Students work on projects in which they have to view an issue within agricultural science, agricultural economy or veterinary medicine from at least two ethical perspectives. Thirdly a number of factors which seem to be important for the success of the courses are singled out.
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This publication provides an overview of research on a large range of topics relating to language processing and language use from a life-span perspective. It is unique in covering and combining psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches, discussing questions such as: Is it beneficial to speak more than one language when growing old? How are languages processed in multilingual persons, and how does this change over time? What happens to language and communication in multilingual aphasia or dementia? How is multilingual ageing portrayed in the media? It is a joint, cross-disciplinary venture of researchers from the Centre for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan at The University of Oslo and the editors of this publication.
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This publication provides an overview of research on a large range of topics relating to language processing and language use from a life-span perspective. It is unique in covering and combining psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches, discussing questions such as: Is it beneficial to speak more than one language when growing old? How are languages processed in multilingual persons, and how does this change over time? What happens to language and communication in multilingual aphasia or dementia? How is multilingual ageing portrayed in the media? It is a joint, cross-disciplinary venture of researchers from the Centre for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan at The University of Oslo and the editors of this publication.