This course enables students to develop a working knowledge of applied nutrition. Specific topics include federal feeding programs, food policy, surveillance, use of online nutrition and research tools, current dietary guidelines, and diet assessment.
Problems involving original investigation. May be repeated for maximum of nine credits.
A course designed to educate students in the basic knowledge of attitudes and skills required to meet the pharmaceutical needs of the elderly. Topics include discussions of the aging process, physiological and psychological changes in the elderly, how these changes influence patient compliance and the responses to drug and nondrug treatments, monitoring drug use in long-term care facilities, and special community services available to the elderly.
Explores the elderly person's changing experience of environment. Physiological, psychological and social changes are related to adjustment within urban and rural community environments, special housing for the elderly, and long-term care environments.
This will be a didactic/experiential course designed to give the student an overview of the experience of growing old by focusing on the individual older person. Framed from a cell to society perspective, didactic lectures will focus on historical, demographic, biological, psychological, social, environmental, life course, and humanistic dimensions of growing old. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between individual experience and societal context.
This is a graduate level seminar on the psychology of aging. The course will focus on many of the major topics and theories relevant to understanding the aging process. It focuses on health behaviors, sensation and perception, cognitive abilities, personality, social interactions, motivation and emotion, psychological disorders, end of life issues, and successful aging. The course examines the topics above from a normal aging perspective, atypical aging, successful aging, and demonstrates the interrelationships between the topics to address the aging individual.
A multidisciplinary discussion of how the process of aging affects biological systems. Coverage will be quite broad and includes topics such as subcellular and cellular aging, genetics, immunology, anatomy and physiology, animal model of aging, etc.
This course is designed to present contemporary topics in gerontology in either a lecture or seminar format. It is intended to provide students with opportunities to be informed of current issues in gerontology as well as to explore in-depth studies of particular gerontological topics. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.
This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to experience the practical application of gerontology in such domains as government, administration and clinical environments. In addition, the student will gain in-depth experience with the organization and an introduction to problems in applied research. Students will work under the supervision of a gerontology faculty member to coordinate efforts, establish timelines for completion, and determine grading criteria. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits. Approval of the Director of Graduate Studies required.
