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  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Admission to the Funeral Service Education Program. This course is an introduction to the clinical embalming laboratory. The student will learn correct terminology and procedures as well as legal and regulatory issues related to the operation of the clinical embalming laboratory. 2 lecture hours.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Admission to the Funeral Service Education Program. This course is designed to give students a working knowledge and understanding of funeral merchandise and merchandising techniques. Students will gain understanding of the different types of funeral merchandise, including caskets, burial vaults, clothing, and other items found in the modern funeral home. Study will be made of the component parts of the casket as well as the different styles and types of caskets. Also included will be sales techniques as well as various pricing formulas. 2 lecture hours.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Admission to the Funeral Service Program. The course is an introduction to the business principles necessary for purchasing, establishing and operating a funeral home. It includes a discussion of inventory, inventory control, funeral home planning, human resource management and hiring practices. 2 lecture hours.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Admission to the Funeral Service Education Program. This course is a study of the legal aspects, regulations and problems involved in mortuary practice. Special emphasis is given to the broad volume of mortuary case law and the effect that these decisions have on practicing as a funeral director in the twenty-first century. 3 lecture hours.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to the Funeral Service Education program; and CHEM/CHML 100 and LFSC/LFSL 107. Corequisite: FNRL 221. ( High School Chemistry may be substituted for CHEM/CHML 100.) This course is a study of the physical and chemical changes that take place in the human body after death and the effect that these changes have on the embalming process. A study is made of the chemical composition of the chemicals, solutions and materials used in the embalming process. Discussion will include the necessary components of embalming materials such as arterial fluids, supplemental fluids, water conditioners, special fluids and accessory embalming agents. An indepth study of anatomical structure of the cardiovascular system as it is used in embalming process is included. The course includes the location of and method of access for the vessels commonly used for the injection of embalming solutions and drainage of waste fluids from the body and the identification of vessels that are significant as routes for the embalming solution. 3 lecture hours.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Corequisite: FNRL 220. This laboratory makes application of the principles learned in FNRL 220. Laboratory provides clinical experience in embalming principles and practices by allowing students to participate in embalming of deceased human remains. 3 hours arranged laboratory.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: None. This course is a general introduction to development, object relationship, and loss. It includes a comparative psychology of grief, clinical thanatology and reaction to loss. Study will be made of the practical aspects 454 2007-08 Vincennes University Catalog of bereavement, reactions to untimely death, mourning and adaptation, the child's concept of death and reaction to death in the family. Included are approaches to counseling applicable to the grief situation and significance of the role of the counselor in post-death, pre- and post-funeral activities. 3 lecture hours.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Admission to the Funeral Service Program. This course deals with the information necessary to function as a funeral director in our modern society. Included is a discussion of the forms that must be completed including death certificates. A discussion is made of veteran’s benefits and active duty military benefits. The course also covers the role of the funeral director in disaster management and the activities necessary for cremation of a dead human body. The course also covers compliance with such Federal regulations as the American’s With Disabilities Act and the Federal Trade Commission Funeral Rule. 3 lecture hours.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisites: Admission to Funeral Service Program and satisfactory completion of CHEM/CHML 101, and LFSC 210. Corequisite: FNRL 251. This course is an advanced study in the theory and techniques of embalming. It includes case studies and embalming implications present in the wide variety of cases encountered in modern embalming. 3 lecture hours.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Corequisite: FNRL 250. This laboratory makes application of the principles learned in FNRL 250. Laboratory provides clinical experience in embalming principles and practices by allowing students to participate in embalming of deceased human remains. 3 hours arranged laboratory.
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