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| Description | An interdisciplinary overview of major themes and attitudes regarding death, loss, grief, and bereavement. Topics include the Death System, personal death awareness, ethical issues, end of life care, supporting grieving individuals, funeral practices, and cultural issues in the field. |
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| Antirequisites | The former Thanatology 2200 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course will explore recent research in Thanatology to familiarize students with the methodology utilized and to critically analyze research from an informed standpoint. Students will examine quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods designs, become familiar with measures that have been developed, and also explore current trends and controversies in Thanatology research. |
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| Antirequisites | The former Thanatology 4401F/G. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An interdisciplinary overview of current trends, practices, and issues in the field of Thanatology. Topics include the children's responses to loss and grief, death in popular culture, sexuality in Thanatology-related contexts, diversity in Thanatology, suicide, and professional issues. |
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| Antirequisites | The former Thanatology 2200 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Interdisciplinary overview of palliative care philosophy and its implementation. Topics include response to terminal/chronic illness, distinction between palliative care and traditional medical models, pain and symptom control, the team approach, site of care, communication issues, and psychological and spiritual needs of dying patients and their families. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | A study of bereavement and grief, with a review of topics such as attachment theory, the normal course of grief, current research and trends in bereavement theory and interventions, factors influencing the grief response, and specific types of loss and specific populations and grief. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An examination of children's understanding of death, the dying child, children and funerals, specific ages and interventions for the grieving child, the family system and death, and death and trauma in children. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An examination of children's understanding of death, the dying child, children and funerals, specific ages and interventions for the grieving child, the family system and death, and death and trauma in children. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | A study of suicide with emphasis on North American culture. Topics will include the epidemiology of suicide and current research on suicide, suicide across the life span, theories about suicide, suicide prevention, intervention, and grief after a suicide. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Exploration of how portrayals of social norms for death, dying and bereavement are presented in popular culture and how these portrayals reflect and affect social policy, social norms, and contemporary thinking about death-related issues. Death-related themes will be examined in film media, contemporary writing, television and mass-media markets, music, art, and the internet. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | A survey of beliefs about death and dying as articulated in the world's major religious and spiritual traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Indigenous and African spiritualties. Topics include beliefs about the afterlife and ritual practices. |
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| Antirequisites | Thanatology 2270F/G, Religious Studies 2291F/G if taken in 2021-22 and Thanatology 2296F/G if taken in 2021-22 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | 3 hours; cross-listed with Thanatology 2270F/G. |
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| Description | A survey of beliefs about death and dying as articulated in the world's major religious and spiritual traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Indigenous and African spiritualties. Topics include beliefs about the afterlife and ritual practices. |
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| Antirequisites | Religious Studies 2270F/G, Religious Studies 2291F/G if taken in 2021-22 and Thanatology 2296F/G if taken in 2021-22. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Cross-listed with Religious Studies 2270F/G. |
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| Description | Combining thanatology and disability studies, this course explores grief and loss in the context of cognitive impairment. Participants will learn how people labelled with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities rarely have access to grief awareness and support, unpack the reasons for exclusion, and explore emerging strategies aimed at resolving the gap. |
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| Antirequisites | Thanatology 2283A/B. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Cross-listed with Thanatology 2283A/B. |
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| Description | Combining thanatology and disability studies, this course explores grief and loss in the context of cognitive impairment. Participants will learn how people labelled with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities rarely have access to grief awareness and support, unpack the reasons for exclusion, and explore emerging strategies aimed at resolving the gap |
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| Antirequisites | Disability Studies 2283A/B. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | A study of existing literature and expressive arts (film, visual, music, etc.) related to loss and grief will be integrated with student observations, accounts of related life experiences, and personal creations. |
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| Antirequisites | the former Grief and Bereavement Studies 6005 (Western Continuing Studies). |
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| Notes | 8 weeks online, mixed methods format, with a required weekend workshop (9AM to 4PM both days), plus one exam TBA. |
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There are no course outlines available for this course at this time.
| Description | The purpose of this undergraduate seminar is to explore and discuss the relevance and applicability of Thanatology-related topics to personal, social, political, community and individual contexts. Antirequisite(s): The former Thanatology 4403F/G |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in either third or fourth year of a Thanatology module. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Exploration of how access to resources, oppression, economic factors, culture, and ethnicity affects aspects of death, dying, and grief. Students will be encouraged to evaluate social influences, explore various aspects of cultural competence, and develop an appreciation of diversity in the context of Thanatology-related themes. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An exploration of the intersection between grief, loss, and trauma in a variety of contexts. Theories of grief and trauma intervention will be applied to the role of first responders, death notification, traumatic response teams, unique features of sudden loss, and implications for treatment of survivors in various populations, as well as professional caregiver issues. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course explores the use of public grief, mourning, and commemoration in social justice struggles around the world. The course begins with an interdisciplinary overview of theories of grief before exploring examples of grief activism that have emerged in response to state violence, disappearances, femicide, and war, among other topics. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Climate disruption has increased eco-anxiety, ecological distress, climate grief, and solastalgia. Climate grief has largely remained disenfranchised and misunderstood. This course will examine the growing body of climate grief research, psychoterratic syndromes, disaster mental health services, ecotherapy, climate psychology, psychogeography, climate fatalism, stress responses and trauma related to climate change. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Overview of ethical issues pertinent to end of life and bereavement aftercare. Exploration of various theoretical frameworks and specific relevant topics such as euthanasia, assisted suicide, informed choice and decision-making capacity, patient rights, research ethics, medical futility, resource allocation, and quality of life issues. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Students will be exposed to various care providers in the community that work with individuals and families facing death and experiencing grief after a loss. Focus will be on integration of theoretical knowledge with clinical application. Students with a clinical focus and background will be given priority. |
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| Prerequisites | Thanatology 2225A/B (or the former Thanatology 2200), Thanatology 2230A/B, Thanatology 2231A/B, and permission of the Coordinator. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | |
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| Notes | Class meets for 8 hours each Monday for the first seven weeks of term.
Practicum is 45 additional hours in placement setting. |
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| Description | An exploration of the role that grief support groups play in facilitating healing after significant loss events, including the distinction between different types of groups and their appropriate use for given contexts. |
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| Antirequisites | the former Grief and Bereavement Studies 6003 (Western Continuing Studies). |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An exploration of the specialized care involved in loss, death, and grief, including complexities in care models, politics and structural issues, and challenges to the provision of compassionate care in thanatology-related contexts. |
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| Antirequisites | the former Grief and Bereavement Studies 6006 (Western Continuing Studies). |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Students will have an opportunity to become familiar with current research and clinical practices that relate to various loss and grief experiences. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | 8 weeks online with a required weekend workshop (9AM to 4PM both days), plus one exam day TBA; |
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| Description | Students will have an opportunity to become familiar with critical theory concepts as they relate to Thanatology. Students will examine the underpinnings of critical theory, and explore topics such as social class structure, social and political institutions, and social policy relevant to Thanatology. |
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| Antirequisites | The former Thanatology 3311F/G. |
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| Prerequisites | Thanatology 3322A/B and Thanatology 3355A/B (or written permission from the Thanatology Coordinator). |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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Offered during current academic year.
| Description | An interdisciplinary overview of major themes and attitudes regarding death, loss, grief, and bereavement. Topics include the Death System, personal death awareness, ethical issues, end of life care, supporting grieving individuals, funeral practices, and cultural issues in the field. |
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| Antirequisites | The former Thanatology 2200 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course will explore recent research in Thanatology to familiarize students with the methodology utilized and to critically analyze research from an informed standpoint. Students will examine quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods designs, become familiar with measures that have been developed, and also explore current trends and controversies in Thanatology research. |
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| Antirequisites | The former Thanatology 4401F/G. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Recent trends toward keeping people at home in their last days have increased the demand for people who are trained in supporting the dying and their loved ones. This course will investigate the roles of a death doula and examine communication, legacy work, vigils, rituals, activities performed at the bedside. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An interdisciplinary overview of current trends, practices, and issues in the field of Thanatology. Topics include the children's responses to loss and grief, death in popular culture, sexuality in Thanatology-related contexts, diversity in Thanatology, suicide, and professional issues. |
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| Antirequisites | The former Thanatology 2200 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Interdisciplinary overview of palliative care philosophy and its implementation. Topics include response to terminal/chronic illness, distinction between palliative care and traditional medical models, pain and symptom control, the team approach, site of care, communication issues, and psychological and spiritual needs of dying patients and their families. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | A study of bereavement and grief, with a review of topics such as attachment theory, the normal course of grief, current research and trends in bereavement theory and interventions, factors influencing the grief response, and specific types of loss and specific populations and grief. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An examination of children's understanding of death, the dying child, children and funerals, specific ages and interventions for the grieving child, the family system and death, and death and trauma in children. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An examination of children's understanding of death, the dying child, children and funerals, specific ages and interventions for the grieving child, the family system and death, and death and trauma in children. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | A study of suicide with emphasis on North American culture. Topics will include the epidemiology of suicide and current research on suicide, suicide across the life span, theories about suicide, suicide prevention, intervention, and grief after a suicide. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Exploration of adjustment to change, transition, and loss from the perspective of bereavement theory and research. Concepts relevant to losses which are not associated with death, but which are associated with grief and adjustment issues, such as aging, chronic illness, adoption, relationship dissolution, and immigration will be explored. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | PRIORITY TO THANATOLOGY MODULES, CSI, SOCIAL WORK AND CERTIFICATE IN LOSS, GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT. WAIT LIST OPTION AVAILABLE. |
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| Description | Exploration of how portrayals of social norms for death, dying and bereavement are presented in popular culture and how these portrayals reflect and affect social policy, social norms, and contemporary thinking about death-related issues. Death-related themes will be examined in film media, contemporary writing, television and mass-media markets, music, art, and the internet. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | A survey of beliefs about death and dying as articulated in the world's major religious and spiritual traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Indigenous and African spiritualties. Topics include beliefs about the afterlife and ritual practices. |
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| Antirequisites | Thanatology 2270F/G, Religious Studies 2291F/G if taken in 2021-22 and Thanatology 2296F/G if taken in 2021-22 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | 3 hours; cross-listed with Thanatology 2270F/G. |
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| Description | A survey of beliefs about death and dying as articulated in the world's major religious and spiritual traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Indigenous and African spiritualties. Topics include beliefs about the afterlife and ritual practices. |
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| Antirequisites | Religious Studies 2270F/G, Religious Studies 2291F/G if taken in 2021-22 and Thanatology 2296F/G if taken in 2021-22. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Cross-listed with Religious Studies 2270F/G. |
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| Description | Combining thanatology and disability studies, this course explores grief and loss in the context of cognitive impairment. Participants will learn how people labelled with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities rarely have access to grief awareness and support, unpack the reasons for exclusion, and explore emerging strategies aimed at resolving the gap. |
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| Antirequisites | Thanatology 2283A/B. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Cross-listed with Thanatology 2283A/B. |
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| Description | Combining thanatology and disability studies, this course explores grief and loss in the context of cognitive impairment. Participants will learn how people labelled with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities rarely have access to grief awareness and support, unpack the reasons for exclusion, and explore emerging strategies aimed at resolving the gap |
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| Antirequisites | Disability Studies 2283A/B. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Reading and discussion or academic project on selected topics in Thanatology. Open only to students taking the Minor module in Thanatology or the Certificate in Grief and Bereavement Studies. |
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| Prerequisites | Thanatology 2225A/B (of the former Thanatology 2200) |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Reading and discussion or academic project on selected topics in Thanatology. Open only to students taking the Minor module in Thanatology or the Certificate in Grief and Bereavement Studies. |
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| Prerequisites | Thanatology 2225A/B (or the former Thanatology 2200) |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Course descriptions available at times of registration. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course addresses relevant issues and skills for both professionals and non-professionals, who wish to be better able to communicate with others who are seriously ill, dying or bereaved. Experiential focus on specific aspects of communication and skill-building with emphasis on end of life care and bereavement. |
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| Antirequisites | the former Grief and Bereavement Studies 6002 (Western Continuing Studies). |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | |
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| Notes | 8 weeks online with a required weekend workshop (9AM to 4PM both days), plus one exam day TBA. |
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There are no course outlines available for this course at this time.
| Description | A study of existing literature and expressive arts (film, visual, music, etc.) related to loss and grief will be integrated with student observations, accounts of related life experiences, and personal creations. |
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| Antirequisites | the former Grief and Bereavement Studies 6005 (Western Continuing Studies). |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | |
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| Notes | 8 weeks online, mixed methods format, with a required weekend workshop (9AM to 4PM both days), plus one exam TBA. |
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There are no course outlines available for this course at this time.
| Description | The purpose of this undergraduate seminar is to explore and discuss the relevance and applicability of Thanatology-related topics to personal, social, political, community and individual contexts. Antirequisite(s): The former Thanatology 4403F/G |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in either third or fourth year of a Thanatology module. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Overview of various philosophical, spiritual, and religious understandings of death. Topics will include the search for meaning, philosophical and existential understandings of death, socialization and culture in value formation, suffering, hope, and transcendence as they apply to death, dying, and bereavement. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Designed to integrate current research in bereavement with appropriate counselling interventions for various types of losses, and with various populations. Topics include an overview of various counselling theories, review of bereavement theories and research, interventions with grieving families, complicated and traumatic grief, and self-care for professional caregivers. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Exploration of how access to resources, oppression, economic factors, culture, and ethnicity affects aspects of death, dying, and grief. Students will be encouraged to evaluate social influences, explore various aspects of cultural competence, and develop an appreciation of diversity in the context of Thanatology-related themes. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An exploration of the intersection between grief, loss, and trauma in a variety of contexts. Theories of grief and trauma intervention will be applied to the role of first responders, death notification, traumatic response teams, unique features of sudden loss, and implications for treatment of survivors in various populations, as well as professional caregiver issues. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course will examine mystical experiences before, at the moment of, and after death. Topics will include precognition, dreams, near death experiences, out of body experiences, signs from deceased loved ones, past life memories, after death communication, immortality of the soul, and current religious, scientific, and neurological explanations. |
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| Antirequisites | Thanatology 3393A/B if taken in 2019-20, 2020-21. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course will investigate the field of dark tourism and will consider motivations, ethical issues, degrees of darkness, economics, cultural sites of great importance, and how these places inform and instruct us in our understandings of death, grief, and national and international histories, those disputed and those currently being disrupted. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course explores the use of public grief, mourning, and commemoration in social justice struggles around the world. The course begins with an interdisciplinary overview of theories of grief before exploring examples of grief activism that have emerged in response to state violence, disappearances, femicide, and war, among other topics. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course will be introduced to enhance students' awareness and use of theoretical and methodological approaches to qualitative research, as well as the selection and application of appropriate data collection and analysis methods, including traditional, feminist, and arts-based approaches. |
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| Antirequisites | Sociology 3310F/G. |
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| Prerequisites | Disability Studies 2224A/B, Interdisciplinary Studies 2252F/G, Psychology 2840F/G, Social Work 2206A/B, Sociology 2206A/B, or Thanatology 2201A/B. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Climate disruption has increased eco-anxiety, ecological distress, climate grief, and solastalgia. Climate grief has largely remained disenfranchised and misunderstood. This course will examine the growing body of climate grief research, psychoterratic syndromes, disaster mental health services, ecotherapy, climate psychology, psychogeography, climate fatalism, stress responses and trauma related to climate change. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | The intersecting topics of sex, sexuality, intimacy, and illness, dying, and grief will be explored. The course will build students' awareness and understanding of these sensitive, yet universal topics, and offer ways to address them in a skilled, informed manner. |
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| Antirequisites | Thanatology 3397F/G, Thanatology 4497F/G if taken in 2022-23. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in a Thanatology module, Certificate in Loss, Grief and Bereavement Studies, third or fourth year standing in another program, or special permission of the Department Chair. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Overview of ethical issues pertinent to end of life and bereavement aftercare. Exploration of various theoretical frameworks and specific relevant topics such as euthanasia, assisted suicide, informed choice and decision-making capacity, patient rights, research ethics, medical futility, resource allocation, and quality of life issues. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Students will be exposed to various care providers in the community that work with individuals and families facing death and experiencing grief after a loss. Focus will be on integration of theoretical knowledge with clinical application. Students with a clinical focus and background will be given priority. |
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| Prerequisites | Thanatology 2225A/B (or the former Thanatology 2200), Thanatology 2230A/B, Thanatology 2231A/B, and permission of the Coordinator. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | |
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| Notes | Class meets for 8 hours each Monday for the first seven weeks of term.
Practicum is 45 additional hours in placement setting. |
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| Description | An examination of the climate and ecological crisis through the lens of the emerging field of ecology and religion, including Judeo-Christian eco-theologies, Asian cosmologies, and Indigenous spiritualities. The course will consider the moral dimensions of ecological issues, especially as they relate to other justice issues of race, gender and poverty. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in a Thanatology module, Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program, 3rd or 4th year standing in another program, or special permission. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Course Descriptions available at time of registration. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in a Thanatology module, Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program, 3rd or 4th year standing in another program, or special permission. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Course Descriptions available at time of registration. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in a Thanatology module, Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program, 3rd or 4th year standing in another program, or special permission. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Course descriptions available at times of registration. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in a Thanatology module, Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program, 3rd or 4th year standing in another program, or special permission. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Course descriptions available at times of registration. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in a Thanatology module, Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program, 3rd or 4th year standing in another program, or special permission. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | CROSS-LISTED WITH THANAT 4497G. |
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| Description | Course descriptions available at times of registration. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in a Thanatology module, Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program, 3rd or 4th year standing in another program, or special permission. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An exploration of current trends in theory and practice relevant to response to acute, traumatic events. Both current research and clinical implications related to crisis response and the impact of traumatic loss will be covered. |
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| Antirequisites | the former Grief and Bereavement Studies 6001 (Western Continuing Studies). |
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| Notes | 8 weeks online, mixed method formats, with a required weekend workshop (9AM to 4PM both days), plus one exam day TBA. |
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| Description | An exploration of the role that grief support groups play in facilitating healing after significant loss events, including the distinction between different types of groups and their appropriate use for given contexts. |
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| Antirequisites | the former Grief and Bereavement Studies 6003 (Western Continuing Studies). |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | An exploration of the specialized care involved in loss, death, and grief, including complexities in care models, politics and structural issues, and challenges to the provision of compassionate care in thanatology-related contexts. |
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| Antirequisites | the former Grief and Bereavement Studies 6006 (Western Continuing Studies). |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Students will have an opportunity to become familiar with current research and clinical practices that relate to various loss and grief experiences. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | 8 weeks online with a required weekend workshop (9AM to 4PM both days), plus one exam day TBA; |
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| Description | This course will enhance students' awareness and use of theoretical and methodological approaches to qualitative research and explore the most common approaches to qualitative research – narrative, ethnography, phenomenology, case study, and grounded theory – and several less traditional arts-based approaches. Students will develop hands-on skills for collecting and analyzing qualitative data. |
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| Antirequisites | Health Sciences 3811F/G, Sociology 3310F/G, Psychology 3860F/G, Thanatology 3330F/G. |
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| Prerequisites | Psychology 2840F/G (or Psychology 2801F/G, Psychology 2802F/G, the former Psychology 2800E, the former Psychology 2820E, Psychology 2830A/B, Psychology 2855F/G or Psychology 2856F/G) and registration in the third or fourth year of Honours Specialization in Psychology, Honours Specialization in Applied Psychology, Honours Double Major, Major or Specialization in Psychology, or permission of the Department. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | Cross-listed with Thanatology 3330F/G. |
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| Description | Students will have an opportunity to become familiar with critical theory concepts as they relate to Thanatology. Students will examine the underpinnings of critical theory, and explore topics such as social class structure, social and political institutions, and social policy relevant to Thanatology. |
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| Antirequisites | The former Thanatology 3311F/G. |
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| Prerequisites | Thanatology 3322A/B and Thanatology 3355A/B (or written permission from the Thanatology Coordinator). |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Students will explore various forms of formal inquiry in the field of Thanatology. Topics include conducting a detailed literature review, formulating research questions, exploring measures used in Thanatology research, and determining appropriate methods for inquiry. Research that is notable in its contribution to the field will be reviewed and discussed. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in either Honors Specialization or Honors Double Major in Thanatology with completion of Introductory statistics requirement (Sociology 2205A/B) and Interdisciplinary Studies 2252F/G. Statistical Sciences 1024A/B may be substituted for Sociology 2205A/B, but is less preferable. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course will build on knowledge developed in Thanatology 4401F/G, allowing students the opportunity to develop their own design and methodology in a Thanatology related context, and gain experience in the implementation of a research design, along with the reporting and documentation of findings. |
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| Prerequisites | Thanatology 4401F/G and registration in 3rd or 4th year of an Honors Double Major in Thanatology. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Senior Thanatology students will synthesize what they have learned, as well as examine current topics in the field. The broad thematic framework will be the relevance and applicability of Thanatology-related topics to social, political, community, and individual contexts. The course will be discussion driven, with a senior research paper at the conclusion. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in either an Honors Specialization or Honors Double Major in Thanatology with completion of Thanatology 3322A/B and Thanatology 3355A/B, or written permission from the Thanatology Coordinator. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Students will have an opportunity to become familiar with critical theory concepts as they relate to Thanatology. Students will examine the underpinnings of critical theory, and explore topics such as social class structure, social and political institutions, and social policy relevant to Thanatology. |
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| Antirequisites | The former Thanatology 3311F/G. |
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| Prerequisites | Thanatology 3322A/B and Thanatology 3355A/B (or written permission from the Thanatology Coordinator). |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Course description to be provided at the time of registration. |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in a Thanatology module, Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program, 3rd or 4th year standing in another program, or permission of the program coordinator. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Course description to be provided at the time of registration. |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in a Thanatology module, Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program, 3rd or 4th year standing in another program, or permission of the program coordinator. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Notes | CROSS-LISTED WITH THANAT 3397G. |
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| Description | Course description to be provided at the time of registration. |
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| Antirequisites | |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in a Thanatology module, Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program, 3rd or 4th year standing in another program, or permission of the program coordinator. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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