Graduate Certificate in Death Studies
This Study Plan is a curated collection of online courses and materials that can be used to unschool a Graduate Certificate in Death Studies, with a focus on physical/emotional aspects of death as well as the possibility of an afterlife.
Introduction to Death
- PHIL 176: Death (Yale) – Watching 10%
- Living with Death and Dying (OpenLearn Course)
- Systematic Theology – Doctrine of Last Things – Death by Louis Berkhof (BiblicalTraining.org)
- Living with Death and Dying (OpenLearn Course)
- Biocentrism – Reading 30%
- Beyond Biocentrism
- Reality Metaphysics
- Time of Death
- Brief History of Death
- Making Friends with Death
- Potentiality, Possibility, and the Irreversibility of Death
- Death – the Final Mystery
- Variety of Things – Foundations in Metaphysics
- Hour of Our Death – Reading 40%
- On Defining Death
- Aristotle – On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death and Breathing
Physical Death
- Fundamentals of Immunology: Death by Friendly Fire (Coursera)
- Long for this World
- Staring at the Sun
- Human Encounter with Death
- Old Age and How to Survive it
- The Scientific Conquest of Death
- Dying – A Transition
- Time of Death, Decomposition and Identification
- Death and the Experience of Dying
- Life and Death – the Evidence
- Death in the City of Light
- The Return of the Black Death
- Handbook for Death Scene Investigators
- TMS – Building Blocks of Human Life, Death and Aging of Cells
- Evolution of Death – Why We Live Longer
- Organ Donation – From Death to Life
Mental & Emotional Death
- Whitman’s Civil War: Writing and Imagining Loss, Death, and Disaster (UofI)
- Denial of Death
- The Ultimate LOST and Philosophy
- Dead Man Walking
- Happiness, Death, Remainder of Life
- Sickness Unto Death
- Children’s Understanding of Death
Spiritual Death
- Life and Death Mysteries and Meanings (EdX)
- Theology of Death
- Death and Philosophy
- Death – A Philosophical Inquiry
- The Inner Life of the Dying Person
- The Final Mystery
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- End of the Journey – Death and Dying
Concepts of Consciousness
- BIO 387: Hacking Consciousness (Stanford) – Watching 1%
- Consciousness Beyond Life
- Neuroscience, Consciousness, and Spirituality
- Behavior Methods in Consciousness Research
- Consciousness a Very Short Introduction
- Consciousness An Introduction
- Consciousness by Christopher Hill
- Foundations of Consciousness
- Illumination of Consciousness
- Matter and Consciousness
- Rationality + Consciousness = Freewill
- Reference and Consciousness
- Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness
- Perplexities of Consciousness
- Secret History of Consciousness
- Consciousness and the Brain
- States of Consciousness
- Super Consciousness
- Nature of Consciousness
- New Science of Consciousness
- Origin of Consciousness
- Quest for Consciousness
- What is Consciousness
Concepts of Soul
- Soul Beliefs 3 Courses (Coursera)
- Death and the Intermediate State (Video)
- The Triumph of Death – Barbara Howes
- Reimagining the Soul
- Aristotle – The Soul
- Modern Man – In Search of a Soul
- Evolution of the Soul
- Augustine – Trinity and the Soul
Paranormal Activity
- The Other Side of Living – Exploring NDEs
- Near Death Experiences
- Near Death and Other Extreme Experiences
- Wisdom of Near Death Experiences
- Ghostly Ruins
- Paranormality – Why we See What Isn’t There
- Paranormal Sourcebook
- Paranormal State
- Paranormal Equation
- Paranormal Handbook
- Science, Non-Science, and the Paranormal
- Skeptics Guide to the Paranormal
- Science Confronts the Paranormal
Ideas of Afterlife
- Evidence of Afterlife
- Quantum Enigma
- There is Life After Death
- God and the Afterlife
- The Afterlife and Jesus
- MIssler: Stretching Out the Heavens
- Proof of Heaven
- Aristotle – On the Heavens
- The Marriage of Heavena nd Hell
- Brief History of Heaven
- Love Wins – New Story about Heaven and Hell
- Different Concepts of Heaven
- Heaven and Hell 1 & 2
- Utopia – Between Heavena nd Earth
Final Projects
- Along the Way to a Place Called Death: Origin, Function, and Ultimate Destiny of a Global Curse
- The Physics of Dying
- The Promise of Afterlife
After Completing 10 Elective Courses from Above:
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