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SCWK6944: Dying, Death and Mourning
2025 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
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Social Work |
| Credit points | 6 |
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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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Semester 2 2025
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Normal evening | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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