The Aging Self: Your Pathway Through Adulthood

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Understanding personal aging pathways through adulthood is often overlooked. This course integrates both an engaging academic understanding and a personal focus on the aging experience and how our personal life choices may determine the trajectories of our aging pathways. Through focused service-learning experiences, an aging pathway project, life course interviews, class discussions, and personal reflection, students will gain an understanding of longevity potential and the real challenges and opportunities that increased longevity presents. We will focus on how our course content may help us to enhance our overall understanding of what it means to age well within our personal, cultural, and societal contexts and how to plan for the future, regardless of where we are situated in our personal life paths.