Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Service is dedicated to providing quality education through transformative experiences and applied training to prepare leaders in the funeral service profession.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Explain the importance of funeral service professionals in developing relationships with the families and communities they serve.
2. Identify standards of ethical conduct in funeral service practice.
3. Interpret how federal, state, and local laws apply to funeral service in order to ensure compliance.
4.  Apply the principles of public health and safety in the handling and preparation of human remains.
5. Demonstrate technical skills in embalming and restorative art that are necessary for the preparation and handling of human remains.
6. Demonstrate skills required for conducting arrangement conferences, visitations, services, and ceremonies.
7. Describe the requirements and procedures for burial, cremation, and other accepted forms of final disposition of human remains.
8. Describe methods to address the grief-related needs of the bereaved.
9. Explain management skills associated with operating a funeral establishment.
10. Demonstrate verbal and written communication skills and research skills needed for funeral service practice

http://www.abfse.org/docs/standards.pdf

Approvals

• Nonpublic Postsecondary Education Commission, State of Georgia;
• Authorized to award an Associate of Science Degree in Funeral Service
• Department of Health and Human Services; Social Security Administration
• State Boards of Funeral Service
• Veterans Administration benefits
• State Approval for Vocational Rehabilitation Training; Department of Justice; Immigration and Naturalization Service