Winter Section A: Meets Mondays beginning February 27. This course includes five total sessions, each lasting for 1.5 hours. We’ll investigate not only what happens to the dying and dead, but also what happens to the living as we come to think deeply about the other side.

Each week will include some outside materials, in-class discussions, and occasional creative writing prompts to get us thinking about death in new ways. We’ll learn about different practices in rituals surrounding dying, death, and mourning, and draw upon materials and experts in all kinds of death-related fields, from death doulas and morticians to scientists who use flesh-eating beetles to clean carcasses. In this online course, we’ll take an inquisitive and interdisciplinary approach to thinking about death and dying, incorporating medical science, case studies, and personal curiosity. Most of us don’t know exactly what happens to the body as it’s dying, or after it’s dead, or how to try to connect with those who are gone. Course Descriptionĭeath is taboo, private, mysterious.

In this five-part seminar, we’ll explore notions of death and dying around the world, drawing from biology, history, and beyond.

Mac circle of death