Human Aging and Dying

Catalog description

This course focuses on the field of human aging. The course of study will include a multidisciplinary examination of the way in which human aging is viewed - how we perceive the process of growing older and how society responds to the issues of aging. The course will look at aging from multiple perspectives that include the social, political and biological sciences, arts and humanities, care giving and social services. Particular emphasis will be placed on how these issues will become prominent with the advent of the Baby Boomers.