Web Activities 4

15.4 Comparing Education in Death, Dying and Bereavement

There are estimates that throughout the United States and in Canada, there are upwards of 2000 courses on death and dying. If you access Google and type "The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying" course into the search box, you will come up with a number of sites related to your text. (Be sure to use quotations around the title.) As you scroll down the first and subsequent pages, you should come across various colleges and universities where your text is being used in their courses. If your browser has an advanced search function, you can limit your search to the title, add course, and check within the last year to get to the information requested in this activity.


1			Compare the course outline, description, projects, methods of evaluation, and general tone of your course with those of three other colleges or universities whose course outlines are posted on the Internet.




2			What similarities, other than the use of The Last Dance, do you find among the four courses?




3			Which course sounds like it is best organized?




4			Is there a course that is missing important content? If so which one(s) and what content is missing?




5			What do you notice from any of the other three courses that you would like to see included in your course?




6			What do these four outlines have to say about the future of death education in the United States?

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