PSYC 1230 - Psychology of Death, Dying, and Loss
3 Credits
Emphasizes a psychological approach to death, dying and related topics. Explores relevant theories, data, models, ethical issues and provides an opportunity to confront and explore personal attitudes and feelings.
Major Content Areas
Near death experiences: 5% Health care institutions: 7% Cross cultural perspectives on death/dying: 7% Developmental experiences in understanding and experiencing dying, death and grief: 8% Current Topics and Trends: 7% Suicide, war, euthanasia, capital punishment: 7% Risky behaviors: 7% Personal attitudes about death/dying: 8% Life threatening illnesses: 9% Introduction/Methodology/History: 6% Death rituals: 9% Ethical dimensions: decision making, values, socio-political influences, legal ramifications implications: 20%
Learning Outcomes
Explain historical and current societal and personal attitudes toward death. Student will be able to examine diverse death-related rituals Identify the influential factors, e.g. values, cognitive processes, emotions, that affect ethical decision making specifically in regard to issues such as euthanasia, organ transplants , suicide, capital punishment Explain bereavement, grief and mourning Analyze the issues surrounding life threatening illness Describe children understanding and attitudes toward death Apply and communicate new learning into an understanding of living/dying process
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci 09 - Ethical/Civic Resp
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