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May 20, 2024
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HDFS 437 - Death and Dying: Family and Lifespan Perspectives (3 units)
Overview of death and dying, coping and adaptation as an individual and family experience from prenatal development through adulthood. Emphasis on both personal and professional applications.
Prerequisite(s): CHS 474 or HCE 301 or HDFS 201 or HDFS 202 or PSY 101 or PSY 442 or SOC 101 ; Junior or Senior standing.
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the characteristics of a range of grief and loss experiences.
2. Students will be able to apply family systems concepts to understanding individual and family experiences with grief, loss, death and dying.
3. Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of grief as it relates to developmental stages across the lifespan (young children to older adults).
4. Students will be able to recognize individual, family, community and socio-cultural factors that may impede or facilitate experiences of grief and loss.
5. Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of characteristics of various contexts we experience (family, school, workplace, hospital, military, religious) which impede or facilitate dealing with losses and grief.
6. Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of skills and responses for improving personal and professional interactions with bereaved individuals and families.
7. Students will be able to integrate course materials to develop high quality discussions about grief and loss issues with other students and the professor.
8. Students will be able to demonstrate skills in applying course information to better understand real life and case study situations.
9. Students will be able to develop suggestions for improving care at the end of life, and for work with the bereaved specific to one’s own community, neighborhood or family.
10. Students will be able to demonstrate increased appreciation that death, like birth, is a natural part of life.
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