Funeral Home Management Degree Curriculum
The Curriculum
As a member of today's end-of-life care profession, you will be called upon to act as an advisor, an administrator, a caregiver, and a business executive. To meet the challenges involved in fulfilling these roles, your education must exceed that which is required for licensure. The courses throughout this program will provide you the critical knowledge, skills, and professional techniques you'll need to excel in this challenging field.
I. Required Courses in Funeral Service and Bereavement Studies
BE 300 Clinical Skills in Grief Counseling - 3 Credits
BE 302 Social Systems and Social Supports - 3 Credits
BE 401 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Death Related Rituals - 3 Credits
FS 309 Current Topics in Funeral Service Management - 3 Credits
FS 405 Funeral Management Internship/Capstone - 3 Credits
II. Required Related Courses
PS 240 Human Growth and Development - 3 Credits
BA 206 Principles of Marketing - 3 Credits
BA 207 Human Resource Management - or -
BA 211 Organizational Behavior - 3 Credits
BA 303 Small Business Management - 3 Credits
EC 205 Microeconomics - 3 Credits
EN 205 Business Communications - 3 Credits
EN 215 Literature of Death and Dying - 3 Credits
III. Other Required Courses
EN 101 and EN 102 - 6 Credits
Quantitative Reasoning Course - 3 Credits
Scientific Understanding Course - 3 Credits
History Elective - 3 Credits
Humanities/Fine Arts Elective - 3 Credits
Social World Understanding Course - 3 Credits
Social Science, Humanities or Science one at 300 level - 3 Credits
Two Business Electives at the 300-400 level - 6 Credits
Interdisciplinary Seminar - 3 Credits
IV. Open Electives (2 courses) - 6 Credits
Policies
A minimum grade of C- or higher is required for all program-specific required courses (courses with the designation of BE and FS) in this major.
Students must satisfy Oral and Written Communication requirements of the All-College Curriculum. These are courses that have been identified as meeting the requirements for writing-intensive (“W”) or oral communication (“O”) courses. Students must include the following:
- Written: Three (3) courses beyond EN 102 must be writing-intensive (“W”) courses
- Oral: Two (2) courses must be oral communication (“O”) courses