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Department of Social & Policy Sciences, Unit Catalogue 2011/12


SP20182: Children and death

Click here for further information Credits: 5
Click here for further information Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Click here for further information Period: Semester 1
Semester 2
Click here for further information Assessment: CW 100%
Click here for further information Supplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Click here for further information Requisites: This unit is only available to students on the Foundation Degree in Funeral Services.
Click here for further information Description: Aims:
* To introduce students to how attitudes to death and childhood vary across societies and over time;
* To enable students to understand the impact of the death of children on funeral practice and bereavement;
* To enable students to understand the impact of death and bereavement on children and its significance for funeral practice.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the unit students will have demonstrated:
* To understand the social concepts of the 'timeliness' of death;
* To understand the importance of family context;
* To understand the impact on bereavement of both sudden and expected death;
* To relate bereavement theory to funeral practice;
* To understand the ethical issues involved in reflective practice.

Skills:
* Identify and access information from a range of sources;
* Relate distinct theoretical approaches to practice;
* Think creatively and analytically;
* Good writing and presentation skills;
* To reflect on how working with issues around mortality impacts on our sense of self and the way we view others;
* To relate Christianity and other religions and forms of spirituality to practice.

Content:
* Historical and social understandings of the nature of childhood;
* Bereavement theories related to children;
* Social reactions to death of children;
* Death 'out of time';
* Expected death;
* Sudden death;
* Child development in relation to understandings of death;
* The child in the context of the family.
Click here for further informationProgramme availability:

SP20182 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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