GERO 700 SOCIOCULTURAL GERONTOLOGY

This course is offered and taken at UMBC only.  Please view UMBC Graduate catalog.

A required advanced interdisciplinary seminar addressing the fundamental concepts, theories and interests of social scientific inquiry on aging and the aged. Topics include: social demographic aspects of aging in the United States and elsewhere; the cultural contexts of age as a basis for social status, stratification and social organization; societal change and aging; the history and development of social scientific theory and methodology in gerontology.