This chapter examines the development and some aspects of the history of formal offerings of courses on death, dying, and bereavement at the college and university level in the United States and Canada. It provides examples of some of the early pedagogical resources that were created to support and foster death education initiatives, and sketches more recent developments as regards survey courses in this field, other death-related courses, and programs in thanatology. Survey or overview courses in death education are typically identified as “Death and Dying”, “Introduction to Thanatology”, or “Survey of Thanatology” courses. Instructors and audiences for these courses have come from such widely different backgrounds as counseling, funeral service, health education, nursing, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, social science, social work, and sociology. In recent years, programs in thanatology or the organized study of death-related topics have been developed at several colleges and universities.