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PSYC 2091 – Understanding the Living and Aging Experiences

SE 3

3

Block

keine Angabe

Englisch

Prerequisite: PSYC 1000 or 2200. Topics will vary from semester to semester. This course may be repeated once for 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 toward an older population will affect the students’ 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. The course will examine the developmental processes in adulthood and aging with emphasis on the biological, psychological, sociological, and policy issues in aging, theories of aging, and the impact of nature and nurture on healthy aging. 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 goals of pursuit. The course will be conducted in a seminar format in which students will develop skills for critical thinking, content acquisition, writing, presentation of ideas in front of peers, the integration of contents in students’ own areas of interest, as well as small group collaboration in knowledge acquisition and presentation.

Class Rules & Attendance The University of New Orleans International Summer School program has a mandatory class attendance policy. All students are required to attend class for all classes and any required lectures and field trips. No unexcused absences are allowed. However, UIBK students who have to miss a UNO class due to UIBK examinations in the first two weeks of our program, can receive one excused absence for this. Any further unexcused class days 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
Beginn: 1. Juli 2013

01.07.-08.08.2013, 09:30 - 10:50 Uhr