SOCI344-23S2 (C) Semester Two 2023

On Death and Dying: Current Controversies in thanatology

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2023
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 October 2023

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
Structured controversy 20% Conducted in Lecture Week 4
Essay one 25% Analysis of personal experience - due end of term 3
Class trip 15% One week after class trip
Research essay project 25% Due end of Term 4
Tutorial attendance /participation 5% Weekly
Lectorial attendance/participation 10% Weekly (minus week 1 and week 4)

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,641.00

International fee $7,500.00

* 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 .

All SOCI344 Occurrences

  • SOCI344-23S2 (C) Semester Two 2023