The Anthropology of Death

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

This course focuses on death and the various human practices surrounding death. While all living things experience death, humans are unique in how this experience is prepared for, experienced, celebrated, and mourned. Specific topics to be covered include biological death, medicine and death, non-human primate death, grief, and mourning. Prerequisite: 3.0 ANTH credits or permission of instructor.