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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2005
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SOCI 433 001 (CRN: 11445)
SOCIOLOGY OF THE LIFE CYCLE
Long Title: SOCIOLOGY OF THE LIFE CYCLE: DEATH AND DYING
Department: Sociology
Instructor: Gordon, Chad
Meeting: 10:50AM - 12:05PM TR (22-AUG-2005 - 2-DEC-2005)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 45
Section Enrolled: 37
Enrollment data as of: 24-MAY-2024 3:21AM
Description: Analysis of various cultures' "death systems" (beliefs, values, conceptions). Religious, legal, medical and other approaches to death; analysis of funerary practices and various trajectories of the dying self; "near death experiences", social management of dying in various organizational settings (homes, hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, prisons, battlefields, streets, etc.); changing causes and modes of death (accident, natural disaster, illness, "old age", suicide, homicide, genocide, and war). A field trip to Houston's Glenwood Cemetery, and special consideration of terrorism and the recent tsunami in Southeast Asia.