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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - GEY6627
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2007-01-22
- Department: School of Aging Studies
- College: AS
- Budget Account Number: 0122900
- Contact Person: Sandra Reynolds
- Phone: x9750
- Email: sreynold@cas.usf.edu
- Prefix: GEY
- Number: 6627
- Full Title: Women and Aging
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
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- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Women and Aging
- Course Online?: -
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R - Regular
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- Course Description: The purpose of this course is to examine older women’s lives from a feminist perspective. Factors such as longer life expectancy and gender differences in health trajectories result in a disproportionate share of older women in the United States.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This course adds depth to the electives we offer our Master's Students. It has become a popular class and we feel it should be added to our regular course offerings.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This class would appeal to any of the Master's Students in the School of Aging Studies. It is cross-listed with the Department of Women's Studies Department, and would also have appeal to students in any of the social sciences.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, this course has been offered three times as Selected Topics.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) PhD in Gerontology or related discipline.
- Objectives: Students will be sensitized to the experiences of older women in the context of health, wealth, and social status in our society. These three areas encompass such issues as gender-related health differences, research into women’s health, self-image, work, retirement, social welfare systems, domestic violence/elder abuse, family roles and relationships, intimacy and sexuality, and life satisfaction.
- Learning Outcomes: By the end of the term, the students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of the interplay between ageism, sexism, racism, and issues of sexual orientation
2. Explain differences in our social welfare systems for men versus women and who is most favored by such systems
3. Identify key areas of life where older women are at advantages and disadvantages in comparison to older men
4. Make the distinction between feminist and social gerontological theoretical perspectives in the lives of older women and draw out the practical implications of the applications of each of these perspectives.
- Major Topics: Feminist and Gerontological Theory
Ageism and Sexism
Change and Advocacy
Ethnicity and Racism
Women’s Health: Status and Science
Menopause
Other Physiological Changes
Women and Self-Image
Women’s Cognitive Health
Women’s Mental Health
Family, Relationships, and Widowhood
Grieving and End of Life Issues
Intimate Lives of Older Women
Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse
Older Women and Work
Women’s “Retirement”—Social Security and Other Benefits
Long-Term Care
Successful Aging in Older Women: Life Satisfaction
Successful Aging in Older Women: Religion and Faith
- Textbooks: 1. Doress-Worters, P. B., & Siegal, D. L. (1994). The new ourselves, growing older. New York, NY: Touchstone. ISBN 0671872974
2. Coyle, J. M. (Ed.). (2001). Handbook on women and aging. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN 0313288577
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.