Brooklyn College Summer Courses
Some courses being offered at Brooklyn College this summer include the following.
Economics Department
The Brooklyn College Economics Department will be offering approximately 40 different courses over two summer sessions. Approximately one-third of the courses offered will be fully online for students who want to learn while relaxing on the great New York beaches. Some interesting courses offered include: personal finance, investments, negotiation and conflict resolution, macroeconomics, microeconomics, money and banking, income taxation, accounting, introduction to marketing, introduction to management, business law, electronic commerce, and real estate.
Those interested in accounting, business, or economics courses, please contact Professor Friedman.
Health and Nutrition Sciences
The Thanatology Program in Health and Nutrition Sciences is offering Bereavement, course number H&NTR 744.5.
Course Description: This graduate level course examines the phenomenon of bereavement in fifteen distinct modules. We will look at the ideas of bereavement, grief, and mourning; at the ideas from major theorists and scholars who have shaped our understanding of separation and loss; how expressions of mourning have changed in this country over the past 200 years; how children grieve; how adolescents grieve; how loss affects families; how individuals can help persons who are suffering from a loss; and special topics that look at some issues that can complicate bereavement for people.
Course Outcomes
In this course, students will:
1. Understand the key concepts associated with the bereavement.
2. Compare and contrast major theorists’ and scholars’ views about separation and loss.
3. Understand and compare various models used to explain people’s reaction to separation and loss.
4. Compare and contrast how children grieve and how adolescents grieve.
5. Use concepts that clarify how families cope with separation and loss.
6. Learn what bereaved persons consider helpful and what they consider to be unhelpful.
7. Apply criteria that indicate when some losses place people at risk for troublesome outcomes.
8. Develop an evolving case study over the course of the semester, applying material from the course and responding to feedback from others.
9. Engage in critical discussion of each student’s case study.
10. Develop an individual project of relevance to this course.
For more information, please contact Professor David Balk, 718.951.5000, xt. 1232.
