Death, Dying, and Grief

Catalog description

This course provides an in-depth examination of death, dying, and grief from a psychological perspective. The course is designed to build students’ confidence when discussing death and death-related concepts by encouraging direct and objective examination of death topics. Topics of discussion include death, dying, and grief in America; how different cultures think about death; logistics surrounding death; how death affects people at different ages; and stigmatized death. After taking this course, students should be more comfortable talking about death-related issues, be more capable of supporting loved ones in times of grief, and think about death, dying, and grief in an open and real way.