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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Edgewood College Catalog
Thanatology, Funeral Service and Aftercare for Funeral Professionals Graduate Certificate
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Funeral professionals work within communities and are often the first point of contact after a family member dies. This certificate will offer funeral professionals the tools they need to create and implement excellent aftercare programs for their communities.
Learning Objectives:
- Discern, reflect upon, and evaluate student’s own relationship with death and grief, both as an individual and a member of society
- Examine best practices in end-of-life care and grief support
- Develop a course in an area of expertise that meets the individual learning needs of a diverse student population
- Examine and evaluate the purposes and practices for ceremonies and rituals, in order to help families plan more meaningful funeral services
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Program Requirements
All certificates are 12 credits, and all require THN600: Introduction to Thanatology or its equivalent (after consultation with the program director, this course might be waived). THN600 need be taken only once and can be applied to subsequent certificates, or students may choose a fourth course in its stead.
Flexibility is important. Students can petition with the program director to adjust the electives that are part of each certificate, in case they have a specific educational need within the program and certificate. For example, for Suicidology and Postvention, they may not work with children and teens. Instead, they may prefer to take both THN707: Suicide and Children, Teens, and Young Adults and THN708: Traumatology OR THN710: Complicated Grief, instead of THN707: Suicide in the Lives of Children and Teens.
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