These courses are open to ALL majors. Email cokeefe@umbc.edu for permission. Please find their descriptions below.
AGNG351 with Mark Embley:
The course develops a knowledge base sufficient to allow students to both appreciate and become conversant with the application of basic individual and business-related decision making skills to issues facing all individuals especially older adults as well as organizations engaged in the provision of aging services. Through a case study approach based firmly in aging services, it surveys a range of topics including economic behavior (motivation), marginal analysis, the market forces of supply & demand, illustrations of market failure, the mechanics of profit maximization, the time value of money and personal financial strategies to cope with the predicted sea changes resulting from the aging of the population.
AGNG358 with Dr. Judah Ronch:
Provides students with the opportunity for advanced study of topics such as the promotion of healthy physical, psychological, and social aging in health and human services. Focuses on how health and human services can promote developmental potential in older adults. Encourages students to delve into a study of the role that aging persons will play in their selected field of health and human services. Also, students will conduct research on topics in aging and examine how this research relates to their major and future career goals. Recommended Course Preparation:Introductory social or behavioral science course
AGNG399 with Enid Borden:
Special topic: "Designing the future of home and community-based services for older adults"
This course is meant to serve as a design laboratory for the development of a blueprint for the future of home and community-based care services. We will specifically concentrate on the evolution of and future ideation of senior centers and their role in the health and well-being of seniors. The course will provide an overview of the history of senior centers in America, the salient issues that are either mitigating or exacerbating the stagnant nature of senior centers, the opportunities to think beyond the present model and help create a future entity that is most likely to meet the physical, psycho-social, health and nutritional needs of a new generation of an aging society. The course will rely heavily on leadership skills that will require strategic planning and oral presentations.
This course is meant to serve as a design laboratory for the development of a blueprint for the future of home and community-based care services. We will specifically concentrate on the evolution of and future ideation of senior centers and their role in the health and well-being of seniors. The course will provide an overview of the history of senior centers in America, the salient issues that are either mitigating or exacerbating the stagnant nature of senior centers, the opportunities to think beyond the present model and help create a future entity that is most likely to meet the physical, psycho-social, health and nutritional needs of a new generation of an aging society. The course will rely heavily on leadership skills that will require strategic planning and oral presentations.
