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Last updated: 4 June 2021
Trimester 2: Cloud (online)*
*2022 will be the final offering of this unit
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Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
A weekly 1-hour Blackboard Collaborate class will be offered to students during Trimester via CloudDeakin
Cemetery managers face many challenges today in a multi-cultural, mutli-religious society. Balancing the needs of a complex range of religious and cultural beliefs around death, grief and interment, and dealing sensitively with the needs of grieving relatives, against all the other regulatory and contextual factors is enormously demanding.
This unit surveys the beliefs of major world religions and emerging cultural practices impacting on cemetery services in contemporary society, as well as a secular worldview, with a focus on death, interment and grieving. It then explores some principles for providing cemetery services in a manner that is sensitive to the needs of grieving clients from diverse backgrounds.
Critically examine and evaluate the needs and expectations of diverse mourners to generate cemetery services that balance regulatory and stakeholder requirements
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO5: Problem solving
ULO2
Systematically examine common death and afterlife beliefs, and interment and mourning practices across different sociocultural, secular and religious traditions to provide services that are appropriate to diverse groups experiencing bereavement
GLO8: Global citizenship
ULO3
Apply informed and respectful awareness of various beliefs and practices in communications with mourners of diverse backgrounds
GLO2: Communication
ULO4
Critically reflect on personal religious and secular beliefs around burial, cremation and internment to better provide empathetic leadership and service for multiple stakeholders
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO6: Self-management
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: AIN702 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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