SYG2361 Thanatology: Dying and Death

3 credit hour(s)

Prerequisite(s): documented exemption, appropriate placement test scores, or completion of developmental education reading and writing.
A sociological approach to the conceptual, medical, legal and practical problems related to death and dying. Topics include: meanings of death and dying, the dying patient, survivors, rituals of death, and life after death. Lecture: 3 hours.