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RS 266Death and Dying

Units
0.50
Faculty
Arts
Subject
Religious Studies

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2024–25.

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 1 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

While death is a physical event, it often entails legal, social, cultural, psychological, and religious significance. This course examines matters of dying, death, and death rituals in a variety of religions.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Reviewed on UW Flow

50% liked it67% easy67% useful

From 4 ratings and 2 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Assignments were mostly comprised of short papers, tests, and class engagement. The short papers were easy (film responses), the tests were pretty simple provided you took good lecture notes, and the lecture content was engaging.
    Honestly, I loved this course. The content was engaging, and the prof (Celestini) provided some general information on each major world religion prior to investigating their death rituals. In this way, it was part world-religions class, part look-at-this-dead-body class. A win-win, if you ask me.

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  • This course was amazing! It requires little effort to do well as long as you are interested in the topic of death and dying and come to class occasionally.

    Dec 2017 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

3 posts and comments in 3 threads mention RS 266, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Fall 2021

Winter 2020

Interesting courses to take in the spring with small workload? 8 points, 7 comments

“Thinking of taking it easy for my final term, I have three courses that I need to take, and I'm looking for some interesting courses that I don't need to dedicate a lot of time into. …”

u/chocolateatol: “I am taking RS 266 - Death and Dying Judging by the UWFlow rating it seems pretty easy. It's supposed to be about how Eastern and Western religions & cultures view death. No prereqs. Seems straightforward.”

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Fall 2017

Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”

u/Jackhofmann: “… RS 100 RS 110 RS 112 RS 121 RS 130 RS 133 RS 170 RS 180 RS 213 RS 216 RS 233 RS 236 RS 242R RS 266 RS 270R RS 283 RS 291 RS 327 RS 353 RS 357 RS 380 RS 398 RS 499 RS 700 RSCH 100 RUSS 101 SCBUS 123 SCBUS 223 SCBUS 225 SCBUS 323 SCBUS 423 SCI 10 SCI 200 SCI 206 SCI 238 SCI 267 …”

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