Variant of CIP 2016 - Primary groupings

11 - Personal, protective and transportation services

12. - Personal and culinary services

12.03 - Funeral service and mortuary science

This subseries comprises instructional program classes 12.0301 to 12.0399.

12.0301 - Funeral service and mortuary science, general

This instructional program class comprises any program that generally prepares individuals for careers in the funeral service industry and for licensure as funeral service directors or morticians. These programs include courses in the basic elements of mortuary science and the business, counselling, and operational aspects of funeral service.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • funeral directing and embalming
  • funeral director and embalmer
  • funeral director and mortician

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • funeral director(12.0302)
  • mortician(12.0303)
  • thanatology(38.9999)

12.0302 - Funeral direction/service

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals for professional licensure as funeral directors and as managers of funeral homes, cemeteries, and related services. These programs include courses in the sociology of death and dying, psychology of grief and grief counselling, history of funeral service, funeral direction, business law, funeral service law, funeral home management, accounting and related computer operations, and funeral services marketing and merchandising.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • cemetery manager
  • funeral direction
  • funeral director
  • funeral home manager
  • funeral service education
  • funeral services director

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • embalmer(12.0303)
  • funeral directing and embalming(12.0301)

12.0303 - Mortuary science and embalming/embalmer

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals for licensure as embalmers and morticians. These programs include courses in pathogenic microbiology, systematic pathology, thanatochemistry, gross anatomy, clinical mortuary science, embalming, restorative art, applicable laws and regulations, and special services such as cremation and preparations required by specific religious communities.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • embalmer
  • embalming
  • mortician
  • mortician and embalmer
  • mortician and embalming
  • mortuary science
  • mortuary science and embalmer
  • mortuary science and embalming

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • funeral directing and embalming(12.0301)
  • funeral director(12.0302)
  • thanatology(38.9999)

12.0399 - Funeral service and mortuary science, other

This instructional program class comprises any program not listed above that relates to Funeral service and mortuary science.

• Exclusion(s)

  • funeral directing and embalming(12.0301)
  • thanatology(38.9999)