Minor Program

The interdisciplinary minor in aging consists of seven courses, which must include either 01:830:335 Adult Development and Aging or 01:920:303 Social Gerontology, normally taken as introductory courses. Both courses may be counted toward the minor. The remaining courses must be selected from the list below. A minimum of three courses must be taken at the 300 level or above. At least five of the seven courses must be taken outside the student's major, with at least two courses in one other discipline. The minor also requires the completion of a culminating paper that may be done in conjunction with any upper-level course listed below, in a faculty-sponsored independent study course, or as a departmental or school honors project. This paper is considered for approval by two members of the interdisciplinary committee, one of whom may be a faculty member in the student's major.

Courses approved for satisfaction of minor requirements include the following:

  01:070:366  Anthropology of Old Age (3)

  01:220:316  Health Economics (3)

  01:220:340  Economics of Income Inequality and Discrimination (3)

  01:220:348  Economics of Social Welfare Programs (3)

  01:377:218  Exercise and Health (3)

  01:377:304  Exercise and Aging (3)

  01:506:113  Patterns in Civilization: Death (3)

  01:512:121  Health and Environment in America (3)

  01:512:220  Your Family in History (3)

  01:730:249  Medical Ethics (3)

  01:730:371  Philosophies of Death and Dying (3)

  01:790:305  Public Policy Formation (3)

  01:830:271  Psychology of the Family (3)

  01:830:335  Adult Development and Aging (3)

  01:830:495 or 496  Research in Psychology (3)

  01:840:112  Death and Afterlife (3)

  01:840:341  Religion and Psychology (3)

  01:920:227  Population and Society (3)

  01:920:272  Sociology of the Family (3)

  01:920:303  Social Gerontology (3)

  01:920:438  Sociology of Age (3)

  01:920:495  Research in Sociology (3)

  11:709:345  Nutrition and Development through the Life Span (3)

  11:709:498  Nutrition and Disease (3)

  37:575:315  Employment Law (3)