HON 209 - Death, Self and Society

Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Students participate in an interdisciplinary investigation of death, dying, and the grieving process. Topics include: The American way of death as a social institution, dying as a psychological process, how society conditions us to deny death and repress grief, how students relate to their own death, and the death of significant others. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits