SOCI344-20S2 (C) Semester Two 2020

On Death and Dying: Current Controversies in thanatology

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2020
End Date: Sunday, 8 November 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 24 July 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 25 September 2020

Description

'On Death and Dying' introduces students to this most pervasive yet under-examined aspect of social life. Students will be given the opportunity to explore death, dying and bereavement from a sociological point of view. We will explore the different and complex ways people attend to death through a guided programme that includes a study of the notion of sequestered death, the body in death, the social stratification of death, customary practices past and present including Aotearoa/New Zealand, death and medicine, good death/bad death, near death experiences, ghosts, euthanasia, suicide, the funereal profession, grief and mourning, memento mori, mass death, death and the media/popular culture.

Prerequisites

Any 30 points at 200 level from ANTH or SOCI, or
any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Restrictions

SOCI244, POLS404

Course Coordinator

Ruth McManus

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Group report 07 Aug 2020 20% In lecture report produced during the structured controversy session
Essay one 21 Aug 2020 30%
Class trip 20 Sep 2020 20% Evaluation of class members' attitudes to death as a consequence of trip to funeral home. 1500 words (via LEARN portal)
Research essay project 30 Oct 2020 30% Final assessment (via LEARN portal)

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,553.00

International fee $6,750.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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