SOCI 387 - Death and Dying in Social Contexts

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take SOCI-201. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:

Description: An overview of the perspectives on death in different cultures, social influences on those perspectives, death in relation to modern health care systems and related ethical issues, models of grief and its expression, last rites, consequences for survivors, suicide, contemporary risks of death.