Why Gerontology?

Courses & Requirements

Faculty

Courses & Requirements

Required credit hours
21 semester hours of aging-specific upper level coursework, consisting of 9 hours of required courses, 9-12 hours of aging-specific elective courses and 3 hours of special electives.

Courses

• Required courses: Introduction to Gerontology, Sociology or Psychology Field Experience, Senior Thesis in Gerontology.
• Aging-specific elective courses: Social Gerontology, Seminar in selected Topics: Issues in Aging, Independent Study: Directed Research in Aging, Life Span Development Psychology, Women and Aging, Topics in Psychology: Issues in Aging, Exercise and Aging, Nursing the Older Adult.
• Special elective courses: Principles of Management I, Consumer Behavior, Health Topics II, Women’s Health Issues, Human Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, Psychology of Sensation and Perception, Family Counseling, Behavioral Pharmacology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Marriage and the Family, Sociology of Substance Abuse, Stratification and Social Inequality, Learning and Memory, Personality Theories and Medical Sociology.

For a complete description of the courses, see the University Catalog at http://www.sau.edu/catalog.