ANSC-3997 Death and Dying
(ENGAGING DIFFERENCE, TEXTS & CONTEXTS) This course will introduce students to anthropological, sociological, and interdisciplinary perspectives on death, dying, and bereavement. Standard topics may include social and cultural framing of death and how we die, funerals, mourning, and near-death experiences, martyrdom, ego-death, and afterlife concepts. Students will reflect upon their own lives and deaths through a variety of academic and creative projects. Formerly SOC-305.