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Prerequisite: PSYC 1000 or 2200. Topics will vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for a total of six semester hours credit.

This class will seek to engage students to begin to think about their own lives, adulthood, and career paths. Special emphasis will be placed on how the dramatic demographic change in the U.S. and the world towards an older population; these changes will affect the students’ personal and professional future. Regardless of one’s field of study in the humanities, business, sciences or health-care --- career advancement is more and more predicated on knowledge about the older segment of the population.

A portion of the course will lead the students to evaluate how the aging population would impact their career goals. Another portion will lead the students to think about their own aging processes and those of their families, and to reflect on aging, dying, health, career path, family, relationships, support systems, and personal philosophies for living. The aim is for students to better appreciate the value of life and apply these experiences in their own pursuit of goals.

The course will examine the developmental processes in adulthood and aging. An overview of practical aging processes will be presented. Students will select developmental processes they are most interested and become a nominal expert in this area using the textbook and internet research. The students will write (blog) and present their findings to the class. The quality of writing and presentation will be graded, and the classmate’s interactions, responses, and discussion will also be graded. Video-documentary cases on aging and living will also be presented, and the students will react to the cases by writing blogs and by participating in class discussion on the cases.

The University of New Orleans International Summer School program has a mandatory class attendance policy. All students are required to attend class for all morning classes and any required afternoon and/or weekend fields trips and lectures. No unexcused absences are allowed. However, LFU students who have to miss a UNO class due to LFU examinations in the first two weeks of our program, can receive one excused absence for this. Any further unexcused absences will result in an academic penalty. Each faculty member determines the penalty for missed classes. Most professors deduct a letter grade for each additional missed class day. For details, please refer to your course syllabi, which will be distributed on the first day of class. Mail: Center-New-Orleans@uibk.ac.at

Die Anrechnung der Kurse der UNO-IBK International Summer School muss von den Studierenden selbst vorab mit den zuständigen StudiendekanInnen geklärt werden. Diese allein entscheiden über die Anerkennung der belegten Kurse für das jeweilige Studienfach. Es wird empfohlen, sich einen Vorabbescheid über die Anerkennung der Kurse ausstellen zu lassen.