Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2011

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

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)

  • funeral director
  • funeral service education
  • funeral services director

• Exclusion(s)

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