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SCWK6944: Dying, Death and Mourning

2024 unit information

This unit of study is designed to introduce social work students to the various, often competing, discourses both constituting and challenging ideas around dying, death and mourning in contemporary societies. Taking a critical and sociological approach, it considers how dying, death and mourning reflect social and cultural understandings of issues such as gender, illness, community, stigma and identity.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Social Work

Code SCWK6944
Academic unit Social Work
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Identify the socially and culturally constructed nature of dying, death and mourning in modern society
  • LO2. Engage in policy debates on current issues of dying, death and mourning
  • LO3. Apply social work values to encounters of dying, death and mourning
  • LO4. Demonstrate professional attributes that enable practice in the area of dying, death and mourning

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2024
Normal evening Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2021
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2021
Normal day Remote
Semester 2 2022
Normal evening Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2023
Normal evening Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

Modes of attendance (MoA)

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