Grief, Loss, and Death: Integrating Clinical and Population Health Perspectives

MBB 980II Subject & Catalog Number

Description

Undergraduate and graduate students have few academic opportunities to engage with the profound themes of grief, loss, and death, even in an era of pandemics, climate change, and widening health disparities. In this seminar-style course, we apply a population mental health perspective that integrates work across a range of disciplines including psychology, psychiatry, neurobiology, epidemiology, anthropology, sociology, and critical race theory. From this interdisciplinary vantage point, we will uncover the surprising insights that emerge from the study of grief, loss, and death. This seminar incorporates an explicit focus on self-reflective learning grounded in a co-created supportive learning environment. Students can expect to acquire an understanding of the core theories and empirical methods in the study of population mental health, grief, loss, and death. Students will apply acquired skills and knowledge to achieve their learning goals within an ungrading1 framework.
 

Class Note: Enrollment via lottery; consult https://mbb.harvard.edu/seminars for lottery deadline, instructions, and links. Preference to juniors in MBB tracks or MBB secondary field. Course content inquiries to cdenckla@hsph.harvard.edu