Bachelor of Arts in Gerontological Studies

The Gerontological Studies Program is a multidisciplinary program designed to integrate research and theory about age, aging and human development over the life course. Rapidly occurring social change is compelling social scientists, policymakers, human service professionals, and others to focus on aging as both an individual and global force. Beyond the rapid graying of the world’s population, other frontiers of change include knowledge developments in the biosocial domain (epigenetic and other types of gene-environment interaction), growing awareness of economic inequality and powerful trends in the political and economic spheres (e.g., cumulative dis/advantage, pension policy, generational equity), and cultural changes (e.g., the development of forward-thinking institutional arrangements and the growth of the anti-aging industry).

Courses are drawn from the Departments of Anthropology, Psychological Sciences, and Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and the Social Work Program at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Students may choose from a variety of courses according to their own interests. Some approved elective courses are not specifically gerontology courses but cover topics that contribute to the understanding of aging and the life course. The perspectives gained in the core courses will provide the student with the background needed to relate the material in the more general courses to gerontological issues. The program is firmly grounded in the liberal arts and thus provides the student with the challenge to think and communicate effectively and to integrate diverse information, theories, and practice.

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