Aging Studies focuses on leadership, program administration and policy development. The goal is to develop transformational leaders who are a force for positive social change in their communities and organizations. This minor is designed to support the ability of working professionals to meet their educational goals without disrupting their careers.
Program Requirements
Core
Choose 3 Credit(s).
This course will answer the question Why should I care about getting old when I am young? through an exploration of the life course perspective, service learning opportunities, and written reflection and exploration.
Prerequisites:
none
Goal Areas:
GE-02, GE-7A
Diverse Cultures:
Gold
This course will answer the question Why should I care about getting old when I am young? through an exploration of the life course perspective, service learning opportunities, and written reflection and exploration.
Prerequisites:
none
Goal Areas:
GE-02, GE-7A
Diverse Cultures:
Gold
Electives
Choose at least 15 credits of electives. A minimum of 3 credits must be taken from each category.
Science and Health - Choose 3 - 12 Credit(s).
Cross-cultural examination of healing traditions, health beliefs and the impact of social, economic and political factors on the health of peoples in different cultures around the world and among diverse ethnic groups within culturally plural societies, including the United States.
Prerequisites:
none
Diverse Cultures:
Purple
The biological and cultural aspects of death, as seen anthropologically, are the focus of this course. Mortuary behavior, ritual, and treatment of the human body will be addressed both temporally and cross-culturally.
Prerequisites:
none
Emphasis is placed on the biomedical aspects of aging and chronic disease. The course is designed for students majoring in biology, gerontology programs, or other health related programs.
Prerequisites:
BIOL 105
This course investigates the physical and mental health concerns of the aging process. Explores specific health problems confronting older persons, and examines preventive health behaviors and health maintenance practices.
Prerequisites:
none
This course focuses on the determinants of health, the concept of culture, and the intersection of health issues, culture, and health status. Linkages between health and development are addressed and research methods instrumental for identifying relationships between culture and health are discussed. The course examines diverse strategies for measuring health and explores how public health efforts (domestic and global) benefit from understanding and working with cultural processes. Emphasis is placed on the burden of disease, risk factors, populations most affected by different disease burdens, and key measures to address the burden of disease in cost-effective ways.
Prerequisites:
none
Diverse Cultures:
Purple
Critical inquiry into the nursing care of family and society in the context of diverse cultures. Explores concepts related to family and society as clients, the family and societal health experience, and nursing strategies to foster family and societal care.
Prerequisites:
none
Focuses on the critical inquiry of the physiological and psychosocial changes occurring with families during the childbearing/childrearing transition period. Includes didactic and experiential learning designed to promote family centered nursing care and improved family health outcomes.
Prerequisites:
NURS 333, NURS 334, NURS 335, NURS 336
Social Sciences - Choose 3 - 12 Credit(s).
A cross-cultural examination of the aging process, status, and treatment of elders around the world.
Prerequisites:
ANTH 101, ANTH 230, or ANTH 220, or consent
Diverse Cultures:
Purple
Aging process and development during the adult years; psychology and psychological concerns of the aging individual; dealing with death.
Prerequisites:
PSYC 101
Aging and ageism in the US and globally from a sociological perspective; emphasis on how age intersects with race, social class, gender, and sexuality.
Prerequisites:
none
Diverse Cultures:
Purple
This course introduces students to thanatology, which is the study of the human response to death, dying, and bereavement within socio-cultural contexts. Topics include the history of death and dying practices and conceptions, current trends of death in our society, cross cultural beliefs and practices surrounding death, functions of death rituals, grief, the dying process, and debates about euthanasia and death with dignity legislation.
Prerequisites:
none
Service delivery issues and social work practice with older persons, their families and communities.
Prerequisites:
none
Policies
Admission to minor is granted by the program when the student declares an Aging Studies minor.
P/N Grading Policy: All coursework for the minor, with the exception of the internship and the practicum, must be taken for a letter grade.
