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    Jul 04, 2024  
MCCC College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
MCCC College Catalog 2024-2025

SOC 161 - Death, Loss and Grief


Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites: RDG 090  and ENGL 090  or qualifying scores on accepted placement tests
C6 General Education Social Systems Satisfier Y
MTA Social Sciences Satisfier Y
Session Cycle: WI

This course analyzes the historical, socio-cultural, psychological and political construction of death, dying and bereavement in the United States and across world cultures. Ethical debates in the right-to-die movement and other social issues about the quality of life will be explored. This course will also address the challenges and rewards in working with the dying and grieving.