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MS 3610 Restorative Art II Cr. 2 MS - MORTUARY SCIENCE Continuation of MS 3600. Offered Winter. Prerequisite: MS 3600 with a minimum grade of C MS 3100 Thanatochemistry Cr. 2 Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary Discussion, problem solving, and application of general inorganic, organic Science program. and biochemistry to postmortem changes, biologic preservation, and Course Material Fees: $35 embalming chemistry. Course includes a problem-based laboratory and MS 3620 Preparation for Disposition Cr. 2 case studies with correlations to embalming chemistry. Offered Winter. Preparing the decedent for disposition, including handling of personal Prerequisite: CHM 1000 with a minimum grade of C effects, refrigeration, container selection, identification viewing, dressing, Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary transportation and special ceremonial preparation. Offered Spring/ Science program. Summer. MS 3300 Religions, Values, and Death Cr. 2 Prerequisite: MS 3610 with a minimum grade of C Various religious, secular, and philosophical views regarding the value of Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary life, the meaning of death, and life after death. Offered Winter. Science program. Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary Course Material Fees: $200 Science, BS in Pathologist Assistant or PBC in Forensic Investigation MS 3760 Funeral Service History and Trends Cr. 2 programs. Basic human need to memorialize the dead, examined throughout history. MS 3400 Funeral Service Law and Ethics I Cr. 3 Funeralization as a process affected by social and religious change. Business law and legal environment affecting funeral service. The funeral service professional in a socio-temporal context. Possible Introduction to American legal system, court structure, and civil & future practices based on understanding of historical records and current criminal procedure. Contract law, property law and UCC Articles 2, 3, trends. Offered Spring/Summer. and 9. Survey of tort law. Discussion and problems based on the ethical Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary responsibilities of funeral practitioners Offered Winter. Science program. Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary MS 3800 Funeral Directing Cr. 3 Science program. Funeral service operations. Practical applications including field trips. MS 3410 Funeral Service Law and Ethics II Cr. 3 Funeral service process from first call to final disposition. Terminology, Legal principles affecting funeral service including legal status of a government regulations, ethics, professional conduct, vital statistics deceased, rights and responsibilities affecting disposition, licensing laws, records, necessary forms. Religious, ethnic, fraternal and military regulatory compliance, preneed and probate law. Funeral service torts variations. Computer technologies and applications. Offered Fall. and discussion and problems on due diligence, best practices, and ethical Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary responsibilities of funeral practitioners. Offered Spring/Summer. Science program. Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary Course Material Fees: $80 Science program. MS 3810 Funeral Service Marketing and Merchandising Cr. 3 Course Material Fees: $60 Marketing, merchandising, public relations, pre-need planning, personnel MS 3500 Embalming I Cr. 2 management, job-seeking skills, licensing requirements; planning, Theories, practices, and techniques of biologic preservation and building and establishing of funeral home. Government regulations. disinfection of human remains; case analyses; methods of application of Offered Fall. embalming chemicals; use of instruments and equipment; special case Prerequisite: MS 3800 with a minimum grade of C embalming. Offered Fall. Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary Science program. Science program. Course Material Fees: $80 Course Material Fees: $200 MS 3830 Psychology of Death and Dying Cr. 3 MS 3510 Embalming II Cr. 2 Various social and cultural perspectives; psychosocial changes related Dynamics of decomposition; influence of disease and its treatment to death, dying, and disposition; special cases: sudden, violent or on the embalming process; public health considerations; anatomical unexpected death. Offered Fall. embalming; disaster response. Offered Winter. Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary Prerequisite: MS 3500 with a minimum grade of C Science program. Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary MS 3840 Psychosocial Aspects of Grief Cr. 3 Science program. Psychology of funeral service practices; social role of funeral service Course Material Fees: $200 practitioner in the dynamics of grief; psychosocial interpretations of MS 3600 Restorative Art I Cr. 3 changing attitudes toward death; normal and abnormal grief responses; Theories, methods, and techniques used in the restoration of superficial sociology of funeral service. Offered Spring/Summer. tissues and features. Color theory, cosmetology, facial proportions, skin Prerequisite: MS 3830 with a minimum grade of C tones correlated with reconstruction. Clay and wax modeling. Case Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary studies in restorative art. Offered Fall. Science program. Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary MS 3970 Practicum I Cr. 3 Science program. Student placement in licensed funeral service facility to acquire practical Course Material Fees: $50 experience in basic funeral service skills. Offered Fall. Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary Science program. Course Material Fees: $30 MS - Mortuary Science 1 MS 3980 Practicum II Cr. 3 MS 4450 Funeral Service Management and Accounting Cr. 3 Continuation of the Practicum I course. Students are placed in a licensed Financial aspects of starting and operating a funeral business; basic funeral service facility to acquire practical experience in advanced funeral accounting principles; dealings with fellow professionals and government service skills. Offered Winter. agencies. Offered Spring/Summer. Prerequisite: MS 3970 with a minimum grade of P Prerequisite: ACC 3010 with a minimum grade of D- Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary Science program. Science program. Course Material Fees: $30 MS 4500 Clinical Autopsy Pathology Cr. 6 MS 4000 Practicum III Cr. 3 Autopsy procedures, including data retention, dissection techniques, Continuation of the Practicum II course. Students are placed in a licensed selection of tissue for microscopic examination, and methods of body funeral service facility to acquire practical experience in advanced funeral restoration prior to release. Course addresses clinical Gross Anatomy service skills and evaluation of clinical embalming competency. Offered Techniques and Gross Pediatric Pathology techniques. Offered Every Spring/Summer. Term. Prerequisite: MS 3970 with a minimum grade of P and MS 3980 with a Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students with a class of Senior; minimum grade of P enrollment limited to students in the BS in Pathologist Assistant Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students in the BS in Mortuary program. Science program. MS 4600 Clinical Forensic Pathology Cr. 3-5 MS 4010 Forensic Laboratory Standards Cr. 3 Assisting pathologist in determining cause of death; basic methods The forensic lab, its organization, accreditation, and regulation; quality for identifying remains with regard to age, sex, and race; techniques of control, safety, and documentation; discussion and demonstration photographic record keeping. Offered Every Term. of methods for collection and processing of specimens. Specimen Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students with a class of Senior; extraction techniques and analyte-specific analytical instrumentation enrollment limited to students in the BS in Pathologist Assistant or PBC used in forensic laboratory. Basis for the forensic logic tree. Offered Fall. in Forensic Investigation programs. Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students with a major, minor, or Course Material Fees: $30 concentration in Forensic Invest and Policing or Forensic Investigation. MS 4650 Clinical Surgical Pathology Cr. 5 MS 4011 Interview and Interrogation Techniques Cr. 3 Principles, theories, and clinical practices related to gross surgical Appropriate and effective techniques for conducting interviews in dissections. Offered Every Term. forensic investigations. Effective and efficient techniques for interviewing Restriction(s): Enrollment limited to students with a class of Senior; witnesses and interrogating defendants. Legal issues surrounding enrollment limited to students in the BS in Pathologist Assistant investigations; strategies in gathering information and obtaining program. confessions. Offered Fall. MS 4700 Clinical Pathology Cr. 3 Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to students with a major, minor, or Fundamental processes in benign and malignant hematopathology concentration in Forensic Invest and Policing or Forensic Investigation. and lymphoid tissue; interpretation of clinical chemistry values, tumor MS 4050 Anatomy
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