2019 Spring Course Info
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Course Information
Professional Seminar in Gerontology
| University: | Iowa State University |
| Course Number: | GERON 594 |
| Credit Hours: | 3 credit hours - $565 per credit |
| Start/End Dates: | June 11, 2018 - August 03, 2018 |
Course Description
This course in an integrative experience for gerontology students designed to be taken near the end of the degree program. By applying knowledge gained in earlier coursework, students strengthen skills in ethical decision-making behavior and apply these skills in gerontology-related areas such as advocacy, professionalism, family issues, and workplace issues. Students from a variety of professions bring their unique perspectives to bear on topics of common interest.
Contacts
Instructor
Peter Martin
Office: 515-294-5186
pxmartin@iastate.edu
Campus Coordinator
For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university 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
Ethics, aging, and society
Holstein, M. B., Parks, J. A., & Waymack, M. H.
Edition: 2011
ISBN: 978-0826116345
Publisher: New York: Springer
Course Access
Students will receive course information and a welcome letter about 3 weeks prior to the start of class. Then approximately one week before the first day of class at Iowa State University, the ISU campus coordinators (Katie Mott and Casey Smith) will email course access instructions to students for courses taught by Iowa State.
Exam Proctor
This course does not require an exam proctor.
Synchronous Components
This course does not include synchronous components.
