Living and dying - ARTS2872
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Social Sciences
Course Outline: School of Social Sciences
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
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Description
Subject Area: Sociology and Anthropology
This course explores from anthropological and sociological perspectives how everyday experience, throughout life, is shaped by natality and mortality. The course will provide you with a lens into the cross-cultural diversity of experiences of living and dying. Key topics in the course may include organ transplantation, palliative care, and the cultural importance of metaphors of birth and death. By the end of this course, you will have developed an appreciation for the key conceptual issues pertinent to the study of living and dying, including love, grief, abandonment, care, otherness, and the uniqueness and connectedness of each life.