Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2011

• 12. - Personal and culinary services
• 12.03 - Funeral service and mortuary science

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)