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MEMORANDUM
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate
Studies at its meeting of December 2, 1980 gives rise to the following
motion:
MOTION: "That Senate approve and recomment approval to the
Board of Governors, as set forth in S.81-6 , the
new course PSYC 357-3 - Psychology of Adulthood and
Aging."
For Information
Acting under its delegated authority, SCUS approved a pre-
requisite change for PSYC 456-5 - Psychology of Adulthood
and Aging.
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The Faculty
of
Arts Curriculum Committee at its meeting
of
November
13, 1980 approved the new course proposal - PSYC 357-3 and the change
of
prerequisites for PSYC 456-5. Would you please place these changes on
the agenda of the next SCUS meeting.
Thank you.
S. Roberts
Attachments
cc. W. Turnbull, Psychology
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Calendar Information p!1rtment:
Psychology
Abbreviation Code:PSYC. Course
Number:
357
Credit Hours:
3
Vector: 2-0-2
Title of
Course: Psychology of Adulthood and Agin,
Calendar Description-of .curee.:
onsiders humaneve1oppt from young adulthood to old age. Included are
theories of adult deveiot and r4Ring; environmental and
biological
factors
in aging; and the effectao?
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on sensation, perception, learning,
cognition-,
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holop.y,
and social relations.
Nature of ?
Lecture/LAboratory
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
i-'YG 101-3
What course (courses),
if any, is
being dropped from the calendar if this
course is approved: None
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2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
Once a year
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
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1981-3
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? E. Ames, M. Kimball, F.
Wright
3. Objective of the Course:
To provide students with a
,
survey of piyehologtca1 development. from
approximately age
25 to old age
and death. To provide a supplement to
PSYC
351-3
(Child
Fsycho1o)
and 1'Y( i5-3
(F3ycho1opy of Adolescence
and Youth) in order to
allow
studen t
s to obl,atn a 1fespn perspective.
To provide a proper prerequisite for kSYC
456-5
(orrtnor on Psychology of
Adulthood and Aging) which would
deal
with selected topics within the
area.
4.
Budgetary and Space
Reguiresenta
(for information only)
What additional resources viii be required in the following areas:
Faculty: None
Staff:
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None
Library: None
Audio Visual: None
Space: None
Equipment: None
S. Approval
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TOPICS
1, Adulthood: Developmental Thcry
and Research Strategies
- theories of th. life cycle
-Jung
-Buhl r
-Kuhien
-Erikson
-Peck
-Riegel
- individual life cycle and
historical time
- developmental research strategies
-cross-sectional
-longitudinal
-cross-sequential
2. Fsycho.ocial Processes of Dcvdop-
ment.
- symbolic interaction approach
Lo
adulthood.
- social clocks and timing vtnt:s,
-
socialization in adulthood.
Young Adulthood
- -marriage and divorce.
- childbearing and childruaing
- getting started In an occupation
'fiddle Age
- copiag with changes in the
family
- assessing career developmcnt
- coming to terms with physiological.
changes (e.g. menopause)
5. late Aulthood
- retirement and its effcts on
Income, health and family
relations.
- sensory losses and chronic
disease.
- theories of aging and mortality
(e.g., waste product theory, au
immune theory, etc.)
- predictors of longevity
(e.g. diet, temperature, SES)
- superiongevity
- premature aging - Progeria and
Werner
's Syndrome.
6.
Personality
Across the Adult Years
- activity, disengagement and
continuity theory
- psychopathology
- functional disorders
- organic disorders
- psycho-social interventions
(e.g. reality orientation;
milieu therapy)
7.
Dying and Bereavement
- developmental changes preceding
death
- life review
- terminal drop
the dying process
- bereavement and griet
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PSYC
357-3
Psychology of Adulthood and Aging
PROPOSED READING
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Textbooks:
Kinrnel, D.C. Adulthood and Agin. 2nd
Edition. N.Y.:
Wiley, 1980
Allman, L.R. and Jaffe,
D.T. (Eds.) El
cad
4
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in Adult Psychology: Contemporary
FerspeCtiVe8. N.Y.; Harper &
Roi,
1977.
tttist.ics Canada, Canada's Elderly. Cat.
No.
98--00
T,
Mrch, 1979.
Su;plemer.tary Reading:
Atchley, R. The Social Forces
in
Later life. 2nd E>dition. Belmont, Calif:
Wadsworth,
1977.
I3irren, J.E., &
Schale, W. (Eds.)
Handbook of the Psychology of Aging.
N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977.
Botwinick,
J. Aging and Behavior:
a
Comprehensive
Integration of Research
Findings. 2nd Edition. N.Y.: Springer,
1978.
Carp
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F.M. Retirement. Behavioral
Publications,
Inc., 1972.
Deluie, L. Women and Aging
.
: A Report
on
the Rest of Our Lives. Ottawa: Advisory
onndU
on the Status of Women, 1978.
Eis:o'fer, C.,. & Lai-,-ton, M.P. The
PsycJofAJidt ?
ve1oent and
Ar1ng.
.:hinton, D.C.: American
Psyc
olor-i
A3ocit3on,
1973.
Geor'e, L.K. Role Transitions
in
Lt.erLe.
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Cont,crey, Calif: Brooks/Cole, 1970.
Gui
l'um, J.F., & Buckholdt, D.R. Toward
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trt.t.leSocial Frocessi.nFof
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Human
Development. San Francisco: Joy-is,
1977.
Hendricks, J., & Hendricks, C.D.
Society. Cambridge: Winthrop, 1977.
Kalish, R.A. Late Adulthood: . Perspectives on Huran Development. Monterey,
Calif.: Brooks/Cole, 1975.
Kaii:h, R.A. The Later Years:
SociaiPwpcations
of Gerontology. Monterey,
,,, !if.:
Brooks/Cole,
1977.
astenbaum, R., &Aisenberg, R. The F
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tholofy of Death. N.Y.: Sprinper,
1977.
Kubier-Ross, E.
On
Death and
Pying. N.Y.:
Mcmillan, 1969.
lc.ubler-Ross, E. Death: the
Final
Sta'eof Growth. Ithiglewood Cliffs, N.J.
Spectrum,
1975.
I
Iron,
D.J.
The Seasons of a 1
, iin l
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j. N.Y.:
Random House, 1978.
Lowerha1, N.F., Thurnher, N., and Chirio,a, D. Four Stages of Life.
Sar: Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 197.
LS., & Kuypers, J.A. From
ThirLLo
seventy: a Forty-Year
Loritudir1a1 ?
?
of Adiiitif ?
ycsard'nritr. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1974-
V. . (Ed.) Aij iuCanadaSciaiPrspectiyes. Toronto: Fitzhenry
& ?
iLside, 1979.
J.A.E. The U1ssean Adult:
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r'tivity in the Middle and Later Years.
Toronto: McGraw-Hill
Yyerson Ltd., 1976.
Neurten, B. Middle Aje and Aging: A Reader in Social Psycho1o
r
.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1968.
Poon, L.W. (1d.) Aging inthe 1980s: I'sychological Issues. Washington, D.C.:
An ?
can Psychological Association, 1980.
TrcJ 1
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L.E. Early and
Middle Adulthood. Belmont, Calif.: Brooks/Cole, 1975.
Trcli, i.E., Miller, S.J., & Atchley, S.J.
Families
in
Later Life. Wadsworth,
Litson, W., & Ixwefl,
n.J. hjl
n
An&and
D.
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A Study in Sociocultural
i:ifl°1°RY ?
St.. Mrtin's Press, 1977.
Zarit,
3.H. (Ed.) ReadLin Agin and Death: Gontemrary Perspectives.
1..L: Harper & Row, 1977.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Change in Prerequisite
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I.Calendar Information
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Department:
Psychology
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sL'brevLation
Code;_P3Y.Cötirse
Nuiher:
14
56
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Credit Hours;
5
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Vector:
O5-O
iit.ie of Course: Psychology of Adulthood and Aging
Calendar Description of Course:
Nature of Course
Prerequisites (or special. instructions):
Psyc ?
0 1,210,357_3,
and 90 hours of credit or permission of the Department.
What
course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
2.edu1i!
11o4 frequently will thà course be of fèred?
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
Which of your present faculty Would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
The new course PSYC 357 will be more
appropriate as
p
rerequisite for this urse.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What
additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Fculty
Staff
Library
Audi"
Visual
Space
Equipment
5.Approval
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Date:___________ 1?i--
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Department Chairman
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ChaArinan, SCUS
73-346:-
(When completing this form, for instructions s(-
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Memorandum SCUS 73 •p
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;itach
course outline).
