Overview
Description
Examines loss in personal relationships and society; emphasis placed on grief experiences, roles in dying, stratification, institutions, ethics, and ending or prolonging life.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate understanding of and appreciation for the ethical principles, beliefs, and values advanced by various religions or cultures as applied to issues of grief, mourning, ending or prolonging life.
- articulate why a specific course of action is ethically defensible in decisions to end or prolong life.
- assess their own moral and ethical values and beliefs within the social context of life and symbolic immortality.
- identify and discuss issues related to illness, bereavement, death, and dying policies and practices that can arise in institutional contexts, such as the workplace, military, healthcare, or educational settings.
- demonstrate knowledge of death, dying and grief across the lifespan within the roles and experiences of the individual, family, community and society.
- apply intersectional factors of race, class, gender, age, family, and sexual orientation to describe diverse experiences with grief and loss.
- identify the strengths and limitations of individual, family, and social theories of grief and loss processes or relationships.
- conceptualize and conduct a research project on a course related topic.