| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
This program explores the societal responses to human mortality through diverse methodologies, including anthropology, cultural studies, and religious studies. It examines theories on death and body disposal, and prepares students for careers in bereavement counseling, funeral services, and other related fields. The program is taught by renowned scholars and offers flexible learning options, making it accessible to students with varying schedules and backgrounds.
Program Outline
Outline: It applies diverse methodologies to the study of death (such as Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, Religious Studies, and Sociology). It examines, through the critical analysis of a number of dominant theories, the problems of establishing a credible meta-narrative about human mortality in the face of the diversity of human experiences of death and the complexities that arise within multi-ethnic, multi-faith and multi-cultural world. It also considers methods of body disposal through burial, cremation and so-called Green approaches.
Assessment: They also have the opportunity to receive individualized feedback from their course tutors.
Teaching: Students take part in structured discussion and debate through electronic forums, and are provided with guided course readings and access to the digital resources held in the University library in order to complete assessments. A visit to a local crematorium, cemetery, mortuary and/or funeral home is an essential aspect of the course.
Careers:
Other: No previous knowledge of religion or death studies is required although some summer reading would help students prepare.
If English is not your first language: IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in writing or equivalent
UK / Channel Islands /Isle of Man / Republic of Ireland
Full-time
£9,250
Part-time
£4,625
Total
£9,250
International
Full-time
£10,725
Part-time
£5,363
Total
£10,725
