PSYC 418: Death, Dying, and Grieving

PSYC 418-DL1: Death, Dying, and Grieving
(Fall 2021)

Online

Section Information for Fall 2021

Upon completing this course, students should be able to: Understand our relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society, see how social forces and events affect the length of our lives, how we grieve, and how we die, learn how dying people are perceived and treated in our society and what can be done to provide the best possible care, master an understanding of continuing developments and challenges to hospice (palliative care), and understand what is becoming of faith and doubt about an afterlife.

PSYC 418 DL1 is a distance education section.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Advanced survey of processes of grieving and their relationship to death and dying. Topics include ways of dying, effects of death on loved ones, and care for the terminally ill. Equivalent to PSYC 518.
Recommended Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of instructor.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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