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Apr 20, 2024
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SS 476 - Death and Dying3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits Course Description Death and dying are universal human events. This course considers how individuals and societies develop ways of coping with death on a personal and on a societal level. Additional areas of focus include health care decisions, grief, suicide, homicide, and terrorism. (prereq: none) Course Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify his/her attitudes regarding death and dying
- Develop an awareness regarding anticipatory loss and grief
- Review society’s decisions regarding terminal care and health care resource allocation
Prerequisites by Topic Course Topics
- Introduction (1 class)
- Attitudes toward death (1 class)
- Pattern of death and dying: then and now displacement of death from the home (1 class)
- Expressions of attitudes toward death: language, humor, mass media, music, literature, visual arts (1 class)
- Pioneers in death studies: The rise of death education, the response to AIDS (1 class)
- Perspectives on death: cross cultural and historical death in early and traditional cultures, death and dying in western culture; four cultural case studies: Native American, African American, Mexican American and Japanese American traditions (2 classes)
- Break class into groups for projects (1 class)
- Terminal illness-pain and suffering reactions of the terminally ill, family reactions, grief: the reaction to loss, hospice (1 class)
- Knowing when to stop: a cross-cultural perspective to the funeral ritual, what is a living will? Power of attorney (2 classes)
- Guest speaker-oncologist’s perspective (1 class)
- Guest speaker-nurse clinician (1 class)
- Test (1 class)
- It is important to talk about the end of life (1 class)
- Guest speaker-the perspective of a medical ethicist (2 classes)
- Guest speaker-the perspective of the clergy (1 class)
- Guests-families who have lost children (1 class)
- Guest-the problem of trauma-induced stress (1 class)
- Guest-the perspective of a funeral director and mortician (1 class)
- Student projects (6 classes)
Coordinator Dr. Lauren Beverung
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