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Course Flow Chart

Level 1 Classes – Available to all students - no prerequisites required

  1. Anatomy for Funeral Professionals (3 credits)
  2. Introduction to Chemistry & Microbiology (3 credits)
  3. Business Basics (3 credits)
  4. Funeral Directing (3 credits)
  5. Funeral Profession (3 credits)
  6. Introduction to the Social Science (3 credits)
  7. Issues and Concerns of a Modern Funeral Professional (3 credits)
  8. Applied Communications (3 credits)

Level 2 Classes – Available once credits for all prerequisite classes are completed

  1. Anatomy for Funeral Professionals 2 (3 credits) – Prerequisite Anatomy for Funeral Professionals
  2. Microbiology/Sanitation/Public Health (3 credits) – Prerequisite Introduction to Chemistry & Microbiology
  3. Embalming Chemistry (3 credits) – Prerequisite Introduction to Chemistry & Microbiology
  4. Essentials of Accounting (3 credits) – Prerequisite Business Basics
  5. Marketing & Merchandising (3 credits) – Prerequisite Funeral Directing and Funeral Profession
  6. Law & Ethics (3 credits) – Prerequisite Business Basics and Funeral Directing
  7. Psychology of Grief (3 credits) – Prerequisite Introduction to Social Science

Level 3 Classes – Available once credits for all prerequisite classes are completed

  1. Funeral Service Management (3 credits) Prerequisite Business Basics and Essentials of Accounting
  2. Embalming (3 credits) – Prerequisite Anatomy for Funeral Professionals 2 and Embalming Chemistry
  3. Restorative Art (3 credits) – Prerequisite Anatomy for Funeral Professionals 2
  4. Pathology (3 credits) – Prerequisite Anatomy for Funeral Professionals 2 and Microbiology/Sanitation/Public Health
  5. Clinical Cooperative 1 (5 credits) – Must have earned 54 credit hours and completed Embalming and Restorative Art
  6. Clinical Cooperative 2 (5 credits) – Must have successfully completed Clinical Cooperative 1
  7. Comprehensive Review (3 credits) – Must have completed all academic courses. Can be taken with Clinical Cooperative 2 or Applied Communications or Issues and Concerns of a Modern Professional.

 

*Taking 9 credit hours per term is considered full-time.
**Associates of Applied Science Degree in Funeral Service is 70 Credit hours​