(Updated from the 2006-2007 Graduate Bulletin)

3006:680 INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR IN LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT AND GERONTOLOGY
3 credits
Prerequisite: permission. The certificate program student only. Explores interdisciplinary issues in life-span development and gerontology. Guest speakers from various disciplines and services which have life-span development and gerontological components and from government and community facilities and services.

3006:685 SPECIAL TOPICS
1-3 credits
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Specialized topics and current issues in life-span development, gerontology, or gender. Emphasis is on original source materials, critical analyses and syntheses of empirical, theoretical and applied aspects.

3006:686 RETIREMENT SPECIALIST
2 credits
An investigation of issues related to the design and implementation of pre-retirement planning and examination of life-span planning education as employed by labor, business and education.

3006:690 WORKSHOP
1-3 credits
(May be repeated) Group studies of special topics in life-span development and gerontology. May be used as elective credit but not as part of certificate required courses.

3006:695 PRACTICUM IN LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT AND GERONTOLOGY 3 credits
Prerequisite: permission. Supervised experience in research or community agency work.

3700:580 POLICY PROBLEMS
3 credits
(May be repeated for a total of six credits) Intensive study of selected problems in public policy.

3750:620 CORE II: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
2 credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing in psychology or the collaborative doctoral program in counseling psychology or permission of instructor. Survey of theories, concepts, empirical phenomena, and methodologies in human cognitive psychology. Topics include attention, cognitive capacity, learning, memory, categorization, skill acquisition/expertise, and training effectiveness.

3750:727 PSYCHOLOGY OF ADULTHOOD AND AGING
4 credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing in psychology or in the collaborative program in counseling psychology or permission of the instructor. Aspects of development, aging with emphasis on life-span methodology and research design. Age-related changes in intelligence, personality sensation, perception, learning, memory, and socialization and intervention approaches

3850:678 SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY
3 credits
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Sociology or permission of instructor. Impact of aging upon individuals and society. Reactions of individuals and society to aging. (Same as KSU 72877) Seminar.

3850:681 CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN AGING
3 credits
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Sociology or permission of instructor. A comparison of aging in various cultures and societies around the world.

5400:541 EDUCATIONAL GERONTOLOGY SEMINAR
3 credits
Designed for person practicing in field of gerontology or preparing for a specialization in educational gerontology, including person responsible for development and implementation of courses, seminars, occupational training programs and workshops for older people.

5400:661 CURRENT ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
3 credits
(May be repeated with change in topic.) Examination of many current problems and issues in institutions of higher education; adult education, technical institutes, community colleges, proprietary schools, undergraduate, graduate and professional education.

6500:683 HEALTH SERVICES SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
3 credits
Prerequisite: 580 or 600 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Study of health services organizations, comparative delivery systems, the roles of third-party payers and government policy in health care. Seminar format: major research paper required.

7400:603 FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN MIDDLE AND LATER YEARS
3 credits
Study of family patterns and problems during middle and later years of life with emphasis on psychological and biological changes and economic and social adequacy. Research and trends in gerontology.

7700:624 NEUROGENIC SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS
3 credits
Prerequisite: graduate status. Course presents current theories and research related to neuroanatomical etiology, diagnosis, classification and treatment of adults with neurologically based communication disorders.

7750:550 SOCIAL NEEDS AND SERVICES FOR LATER ADULTHOOD AND AGING
3 credits
Prerequisite: 276 or permission of instructor. Application of knowledge and principles of professional social work practice to understanding, development and provision of social services to meet needs of aging and later maturity individuals, families and communities and institutions serving them and their relatives.