MTS 160 - Funeral Service Administration

Credit(s): 5
Lecture Hours: 5
Lab Hours: 0

This course is designed to teach effective funeral home management skills. Instruction includes recognizing, analyzing, and solving funeral service management problems and establishing and implementing policies regarding funeral home management. Funeral home operation and records, ethics, and professional regulations are examined. Laws that govern the practice of funeral services, the Illinois License Law, Vital Statistics Act, transportation rules and Social Security are studied. Responsibilities and relationships to local boards of health and the State Department of Public Health are emphasized. The student also develops product knowledge which includes caskets, vaults, monuments, and urns. (This course must be completed with a grade of C or above to continue in the Mortuary Science Program.)
Applicable toward graduation at Sandburg where program structure permits:
Degree or Certificate: AAS, AGS and Certificates where applicable (1.2)

Offered: Fall
Prerequisite(s): MTS 120 and BUS.201 with a grade of C or better
General Education: Not Applicable