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Death & Dying Across Cultures

Course Prefix

ANT

Course Number

253

Department(s)

Course Description

Everyone will dies someday. What will happen to their body? How will their family and friends cope? This course explores the various responses to death and dying seen around the world and through time. Using a global, comparative approach, discover cross-cultural approaches to death and dying from the earliest human burials to contemporary funeral events.

Course Attributes

Arts/Humanities Requirement, Social & Behavioral Sci Req, Transfers to UA, Intensive Writing/Crit Inq Req

Total Credits

3

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0