Resources for Death and Dying Courses.
Professor Nan P. Chico.

California State University, East Bay.

In Brief: Who we are, and Why we are on the Web.

Who are we? My captive audience consists of students who are enrolled in my Death and Dying class, Soc 3419. This is an upper-division course, with a maximum enrollment of 50 students per section, which fulfills either CSU Hayward's General Education "capstone course" (Area E) requirement or the Upper Division Social Sciences Continuation (Area D4) requirement, or which may be used as a Sociology elective by undergraduate or graduate majors.

But I have also kept in mind others who I hope will drop by and stay for awhile: my former and future students; colleagues who teach about death, dying, loss, grief, socially constructed reality, social issues, critical thinking, and social psychology; and everyone else interested in the topics we cover in the course.

Special Note: if you are experiencing grief over the death of someone you loved, or if you or a loved one are dealing with a life-threatening illness, you should think carefully before visiting those sites marked with this warning! Some topics (forensics, embalming, death as entertainment) might be too disturbing or painful for you at this emotionally vulnerable time.

Why the Web? Because there is so much here that is useful and interesting, because I want my students to learn how to create their own Webbed materials for teaching and learning, and because it is really fun! As a sociologist from a symbolic interactionist perspective, I see it as a whole new domain of interaction to observe, shape, challenge, change, think about, and play in.

Table of Contents.

B. Student Web Pages.

C. Student Photos from Past Cemetery Projects.

Web Pages Created by Students.

Battered Women Who Kill and Innocence Lost, The Child Abuse Epidemic by Barcley Kauer.

Children, Death, Dying, Grief, and Bereavement, by Jamie Taylor.

The Human/Companion Animal Bond and The Grief of Pet Loss by Jessica Barrett.

Female Serial Killers by Kari Adams.

The URL of this page is http://class.csueastbay.edu/faculty/NAN/dd/dd.htm

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