Undergraduate Gerontology Minor

Matriculated undergraduate students may pursue an interdisciplinary Minor in Gerontology.  It requires 18 credits, including two of the three core courses listed below.

CFS 363 Introduction to Gerontology

SOC 364/WSP 364 Aging and Society

SWK 357 Processes of Aging

For more information, or to obtain a form to declare the gerontology minor, contact the coordinator of the program, Dr. Carrie Jefferson Smith, 315/443-5562, cjsmith@syr.edu, or Martha W. Bonney, SU Gerontology Center, 315/443-2703, mwbonney@syr.edu. Forms are also available from the College of Human Ecology Student Services office on the third floor of Sims Hall, or from the School of Social Work on the fourth floor of Sims Hall.

Electives

The following courses emphasize aging and economic issues; gender, ethnic and cultural issues; health and work issues; or cover aging in the spectrum of life experiences. These courses are available as electives to most undergraduate students. Graduate level courses with a similar degree of emphasis on aging also count toward the Certificate. Selected topic courses, clinical or field experience, as well as courses that are offered infrequently or irregularly count when appropriate.

ANT 363/WSP 363 Anthropology of Family Life

CFS 487 Critical Incidents in Family Development

ECN 325 Economics and Gender

ECN 355 Economics of Health and Medical Care

ECN 358 Economics of U.S. Poverty and Discrimination

HTW 221 Health Promotion across the Lifespan

HTW 307 Culturally Competent Health Care

HTW 309 Health Problems of Vulnerable Populations

HTW 311 Health Literacy

HTW 403 Community-based Health Policy and Research

NSD 225 Nutrition in Health

NSD 342 Nutrition in the Life Span

PPE 514 Exercise and Aging

PSY 337 Psychology of Adult Life: Maturity and Old Age

PSY 382 Health Psychology

PSY 437 Cognition and Aging

REL 551 Ethics and the Health Professions

SOC 281/WSP 281 Sociology of Families

SOC 335/WSP 335 Sociology of Health and Illness

SOC 421 Population Issues