PERSPECTIVES ON DEATH AND DYING.

Catalog description

Cross-listed: AGST 458 . Notes: may be stacked with SOWK 574 or AGST 574 . This course is designed to assist students in the helping professions who wish to work with the terminally ill. Focus will be on an increased ability to deal with one’s own mortality; the development of beginning skills for working with the terminally ill and their families; an understanding of the complex social system which surrounds death in modern America; as well as the current moral, ethical and philosophical issues in the field.