Fall 2023 Course Information
Economics, Public Policy, and Aging
University: |
North Dakota State University |
Course Number: |
HDFS 760 |
Credit Hours: |
3 credit hours - $600 per credit |
Start/End Dates: |
August 21, 2023 - December 15, 2023 |
Course Description
This course focuses on policy development in the context of the economic status of the elderly populations. Topics include retirement planning and the retirement decision, Social Security and public transfer programs for the elderly, intra-family transfers to/from the elderly, private pensions, financing medical care for the elderly, and prospects and issues for the future.
Contacts
Instructor
Heather Fuller
Office: 701-231-5621
heather.fuller@ndsu.edu
Campus Coordinator
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Disability Support Services
To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.
Textbooks
The new politics of old age policy
Hudson, R. B.
Edition: 2014
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Social Policy for an Aging Society
Cox, Carole B.
Edition: 2015
Publisher: Springer
Course Access
Approximately three weeks before the first day of class at North Dakota State University, campus coordinator
Stacy Duffield will touch base with students via email. She will encourage students to look for an email the week before classes start that will include instructions for accessing courses at NDSU.
One week before NDSU classes begin, students will receive Stacy's email which includes their ID number, user ID name, and instructions for setting up their
Blackboard account at NDSU. Students may then set their own password and security questions, choose to forward emails to a different account, and activate their NDSU Live account.
Courses may not be visible to students until the first day of classes.
Exam Proctor
This course does not require an exam proctor.
Synchronous Components
This course does not include synchronous components.