SCAR 2N03
DEATH AND DYING: THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE
Winter 2024 · C01
Topics
- Week One: INTRODUCTION
- Jan 10th
- Overview of the course, assignments, and learning objectives.
- Jan 11th
- Hoy, William. 2021. "Funerals—Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going." In Do Funerals Matter? , 8-23.
- Week Two: RITUALS & RITES OF PASSAGE
- Jan 17th
- Jan 18th
- Week Three: GRIEF AND KINSHIP
- Jan 24th
- Watch: 4 North A .
- Jan 25th
- Sideris, Lisa H. 2020. "Grave Reminders: Grief and Vulnerability in the Anthropocene." Religions 11, no. 6: 1-16.
- Week Four: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF DEATH
- Jan 31st
- Matthews, Gareth B. 2012. “Death in Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death . 186-200.
- Feb 1st
- Aries, Philippe. 1974. “The Reversal of Death: Changes in Attitudes Toward Death in Western Societies.” American Quarterly 26: 536–60.
- Week Five: 'PREMODERN' DEATH
Readings
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store reading list ↗Fall 2025
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2024
- Some readings or course materials are supplied through Avenue to Learn; public bibliographic details may be incomplete.