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COURSES
GERO 413 -- Issues in Aging (3 units)
Description: Introduction to gerontology, with emphasis upon
contemporary issues.
Identical to: FSHD 413; FSHD is home department.
Usually offered: Spring.
GERO 424 -- Gerontology: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (3 units)
Description: Biological, psychological, and social issues in
aging, including brain changes with age, cognitive change with age, and the
social impact of increasingly older population demographics. This is a Writing
Emphasis Course.
Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the upper-division writing
proficiency requirement; PSYC 290A or PSYC 290B; PSYC 302 or PSYC 325 or PSYC
360.
Identical to: PSYC 424; PSYC is home department.
May be convened with: GERO 524.
Usually offered: Fall.
GERO 459 -- Adult
Development and Aging (3 units)
Description: Change and continuity in cognition, personality,
and adjustment during adulthood, with emphasis on aging processes and late
life. This is a Writing
Emphasis Course.
Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the upper-division writing
proficiency requirement; PSYC 290A or PSYC 290B.
Identical to: PSYC 459; PSYC is home department.
May be convened with: GERO 559.
Usually offered: Spring.
GERO 499 -- Independent Study (1-3 units)
Description: Qualified students working on an individual basis
with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Usually offered: Fall, Spring.
GERO 501 -- Life-Span Communication (3 units)
Description: This is an advanced course aimed at providing a broad overview of the ways in which communication affects, and is affected by, the aging process from birth to death. We will read research articles relating to life-span communication. During the course I wish to convey as much about research methods and how to read technical prose as much as communication and the life-span. The exams will test students understanding of the articles (in terms of their methodological and statistical content and their information about life-span communication) as well as lecture material. In class we will be discussing the articles, clarifying problems etc. Graduate-level requirements include additional in-depth papers, research, readings, exams, etc.
Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to: COMM 501; COMM is home department.
Usually Offered: Fall, Spring.
GERO 505 -- Health Literacy and the Older Adult for Health Professionals (3 units)
Description: This multidisciplinary course will allow students to examine the effects of low health literacy in older adults and the impact this has on patients, health care providers, health care payers, and society as a whole. The course will also look at some possible solutions for this silent epidemic and allow the student to develop low literacy user-friendly materials.
epidemic and allow the student to develop low literacy user-friendly materials.
Prerequisite(s): Must be medicine, nursing, public health or pharmacy student
Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually Offered: Fall.
GERO 513 -- Issues in Aging (3 units)
Description: This course covers a wide range of issues associated with aging, including physical/health changes, social/familial contexts, retirement/economic circumstances as well as the socio-historical and gender-ethnicity factors that affect the experience of aging. Graduate-level requirements include extra required readings and an in-depth term paper.
Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to: FSHD 513; FSHD is home department.
May be convened with: GERO 413.
Usually Offered: Spring.
GERO 524 --
Gerontology: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (3 units)
Description: Biological, psychological, and social issues in
aging, including brain changes with age, cognitive change with age, and the
social impact of increasingly older population demographics. Graduate-level
requirements include an in-depth research paper on a single aspect of
gerontology.
Identical to: PSYC 524; PSYC is home department.
May be convened with: GERO 424.
Usually offered: Fall.
GERO 531 -- Biomedical and Clinical Aspects of Aging (3 units)
Description: : This course is designed to provide the student with current information and research on the biomedical aspects of aging, co-morbid conditions, and clinical care using an interdisciplinary approach.
Prerequisite(s):None.
Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually Offered: Summer.
GERO 547 -- Perspectives in
Geriatrics Lab (1 unit)
Description: contact department.
Prerequisite(s): or Concurrent registration, PHPR 448
Identical to: PHSC 547; PHSC is home department.
Usually offered: Spring.
GERO 548 -- Perspectives in
Geriatrics (2 units)
Description: Multidisciplinary approach to the health-care needs
of the elderly, including medication use, nutrition, health care agencies and
roles of individual health care professionals. Graduate-level requirements
include one in-depth research papeb>-- Biology of
Aging (3 units)
Description: Introductory graduate course focusing on human
aging for students with backgrounds in biological sciences, psychology,
social sciences, or health care. Designed to introduce current data and
thinking on the biological aspects of aging in animals. Includes demographic
aspects of aging; the changes occurring in aging humans; longevity and its
measurement; comparative studies in animals other than people; and current
theories of why all animals age.
Usually offered: Fall.
GERO 556 -- Psychology of Death
and Loss (3 units)
Description: Basic concepts in a psychology of death and loss,
with emphasis on both the adjustment to death and loss, and the underlying
phenomenal, humanistic and current social considerations. Graduate-level
requirements include an in-depth research paper on an aspect of psychology of
death or loss.
Prerequisite(s): graduate status.
Identical to: PSYC 556.
Usually offered: Fall, Spring.
GERO 559 -- Adult Development
and Aging (3 units)
Description: Change and continuity in cognition, personality,
and adjustment during adulthood, with emphasis on aging processes and late
life. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper on an
aspect of a specific psychological problem of the aged.
Identical to: PSYC 559; PSYC is home department.
May be convened with: GERO 459.
Usually offered: Spring.
GERO 583 -- Issues in
Frail Elder Care (3 units)
Description: Course focuses on issues in providing care to frail
elders. Organizational, environmental and interpersonal theory and research
concerning a variety of problems is reviewed.
Identical to: NURS 583; NURS is home department.
Usually offered: Fall.
GERO 663 -- Cross-Cultural Aspects of Aging and Health (3 units)
Description: interdisciplinary course focuses on the impact of culture and ethnicity on the provision of healthcare and services for older adults from a variety of cultural and ethnic groups. The course is designed so as to bring disciplines together to discuss clinical and social issues related to health beliefs and practices, and access to and availability of services.
Prerequsite(s): None.
Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually Offered: Spring.
GERO 693 -- Internship
(1-6 units)
Description: Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting
of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or
governmental establishment.
Usually offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
GERO 694 -- Practicum (1-3 units)
Description: The practical application, on an individual basis,
of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future
theoretical interpretation.
May be repeated: an unlimited number of times, consult your
department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
GERO 695A -- Research in
Gerontology (1 unit)
Description: The exchange of scholarly information and/or
secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often
includes lectures by several different persons. Research projects may or may
not be required of course registrants.
Identical to: PHSC 695A.
Usually offered: Fall, Spring.
GERO 699 --
Independent Study (1-6 units)
Description: Qualified students working on an individual basis
with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students
doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will
register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
May be repeated: an unlimited number of times, consult your
department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
GERO 671 -- Research Methodologies I (3 units)
Description: This course covers a wide range of issues associated with aging, including physical/health changes, social/familial contexts, retirement/economic circumstances as well as the socio-historical and gender-ethnicity factors that affect the experience of aging. Graduate-level requirements include extra required readings and an in-depth term paper.
Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Identical to: COMM 671; COMM is home department.
Usually Offered: Fall, Spring.
GERO 847/848 -- listing is the same as 547/548
GERO 900 -- Research (1-6 units)
Description: Individual research, not related to thesis or
dissertation preparation, by graduate students.
Usually offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
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