This degree prepares students for entry-level positions in funeral service. It is designed to meet the prerequisites for licensure and employment in the field of funeral service as funeral directors or embalmers.
The central objective of an American Board of Funeral Service Education (ABFSE) accredited program must be to educate students in every phase of funeral service so that program graduates are prepared for entry-level employment in funeral service.
The student is eligible to take the National Board Exam and state board examination to become a licensed funeral director in California. The student also meets the criteria to take the state embalmer's examination. As an accredited mortuary college, our program goals and objectives are as follows: ·To prepare students to be members of a human services profession ·To prepare students to be members of the community in which they serve ·To be participants in the relationship between bereaved families and those engaged in the funeral service profession ·To offer professional knowledge of and compliance with federal, state, provincial/territorial, and local regulatory guidelines ·To be sensitive to the responsibility for public health, safety, and welfare in caring for human remains

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ explain the importance of funeral service professionals in developing relationships with the families and communities they serve.
✔ identify standards of ethical conduct in funeral service practice.
✔ interpret how federal, state, and local laws apply to funeral service in order to ensure compliance.
✔ apply principles of public health and safety in the handling and preparation of human remains.
✔ demonstrate technical skills in embalming and restorative art that are necessary for the preparation and handling of human remains.
✔ demonstrate skills required for conducting arrangement conferences, visitations, services, and ceremonies.
✔ describe the requirements and procedures for burial, cremation, and other accepted forms of final disposition of human remains.
✔ describe methods to address the grief-related needs of the bereaved.
✔ explain management skills associated with operating a funeral establishment.
✔ demonstrate verbal and written communication skills and research skills needed for funeral service practice.