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Undergraduate Course: Death: Perspectives on Thanatology and Eschatology 3/4 (THET10013)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Divinity CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe phenomenon of death in modern society from a philosophical and theological perspective.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: God in Philosophy: Plato to Hume (THET08010) OR Systematic Theology 2Bh: Dogmatic Theology (THET08001) OR Christian Theology: Doctrines and Debates (THET08017)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesVisiting students should have at least 3 Divinity/Religious Studies courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses.
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of this course a student should have acquired:
(1) A grasp of the fundamental philosophical and theological issues surrounding thanatalogy.
(2) Methodological and critical skills.
(3) Social and interactive skills in communicating and collaborating with others.
(4) A demonstrable ability to identify key terms and their meanings.
(5)Demonstrable good judgement about how to judge the relative importance of items on course bibliographies.
(4) A foundation for further study.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsDeath
Contacts
Course organiser Course secretaryMs Katrina Munro
Tel: (0131 6)50 8900
Email: Kate.Munro@ed.ac.uk
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