| Course ID: | HDFS 4830E/6830E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Grief, Loss, and Bereavement |
Course
Description: | An exploration of different perspectives and realities focused on experiences of death, dying, grief, and loss across the lifespan. We will examine the cultural context of death, the personal meaning of death at different stages in the life cycle, and the effect of death upon surviving family members. |
| Oasis Title: | Grief Loss and Bereavement |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in HDFS 4830, HDFS 4830S or HDFS 6830, HDFS 6830S |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Undergraduate Prerequisite: | (HDFS 2100 or HDFS 2100H or HDFS 2100E) and (HDFS 2200 or HDFS 2200H or HDFS 2200E) and (HDFS 2950-2950L or HDFS 2950E) and (HDFS 3700 or HDFS 3700E or HDFS 3700S) and HDFS 3710 |
| Graduate Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. Demonstrate conceptual frameworks and cognitive theories about death, dying, and grief
2. Model effective development and sensitivity to issues concerning death, dying, and grief
3. Demonstrate awareness and sensitivity to one’s personal assumptions, biases, attitudes, and reactions to death, dying, and grief
4. Demonstrate death competency and lower death anxiety in order to increase sensitivity, awareness, and skills in:
a. coping with loss and bereavement
b. supporting others in their struggle to deal with death issues
c. finding meaning and personal growth through encounters with death, loss, and grief |
| Topical Outline: | Introduction to Talking about Death and Dying and Death Awareness Inventory
Anticipatory Loss and How We Die
Talking about Death
Expressive Arts and Death
Children and Families and Death
Grief Theories
Disenfranchised Grief and Ambiguous Loss
Trauma and Complex Grief
Cultural Implications
Effective Interventions
Book Discussions |