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Mortuary Science - AAS

The Mortuary Science Program offers the Associate of Applied Science degree in Mortuary Science. The program is accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education (ABFSE). The program’s mission is to provide its students with a comprehensive education in mortuary science; and prepare graduates to enter the funeral service profession a competent funeral service practitioners. The program offers basic education courses in the Pre-mortuary phase, followed by in-depth academic and clinical education in the professional and clinical stages. Upon successful completion of the program and prior to graduation, students are eligible and required to take the National Board Examination given by the International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards.

Employment opportunities exist with funeral homes, hospitals, medical schools, health, and the offices of medical examiners or coroners.

The Aims and Purposes of the U.D.C. Mortuary Science Department are:

1. To increase students’ knowledge of funeral service and its professional ethics.
2. To educate students in all phases of funeral service and to assist them in the development of skills necessary to meet and exceed the standards of care in dealing with health, safety, and welfare associated to the preparation and care of the deceased.
3. To present students with a challenging curricula and facilities which will instill high standards of ethical, moral, community and personnel performance and integrity.
4. To share educational facilities as a community resource.
5. To encourage exploration, research, self directed discovery and participation in the improvement of the program.
6. To relate educational outcomes to the national as well as local needs of the funeral profession.
7. To educate its students to the high standards of ethical conduct necessary to uphold and Perpetuate the dignity of funeral service.
8. To increase the student’s capacity to share responsibility in the social, ethical and political processes of society.
9. To conduct its administration in a fashion that will exhibit to all the dignity and honor of the funeral profession.

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