Requirements for the Interfaculty Option in Aging

Kinesiology and Recreation Management Option in Aging students MUST complete:

  • KIN/NURS 2610* (3 credit hours) Health and Physical Aspects of Aging (*offerings alternate between faculties)
  • REC/HMEC/SWRK 2650* (3 credit hours) Social Aspects of Aging (*offerings alternate between faculties)
  • ONE OF (depending on program of study**):
    • REC 4250 (3 credit hours) Leisure and Aging (**B.R.M.C.D. students; not offered every year)
    • KIN 4500 (3 credit hours) Physical Activity and Aging (**B.Kin. students)
  • AND 9 credit hours of approved Option in Aging Electives (listed below)†

Approved Option in Aging Elective Courses†‡

(†subject to availability, course pre-requisites and restrictions)

(‡any Topics or Field Placement course listed below is valid only if the topic or placement is aging related at the time it is taken, and if prior approval to use the course for the Option in Aging is received from the Department)

Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management

Faculty of Arts:

  • FILM 3420 – Film Theory
  • PSYC 2360 – Brain and Behaviour
  • PSYC 2370 – Developmental Psychology from Adolescence to Old Age
  • PSYC 3350 – Behaviour Neuroscience
  • PSYC 3460 – Abnormal Behaviour
  • PSYC3490 – Individual Differences
  • PSYC3610 – Memory
  • PSYC4420 – Neuroimaging: Imaging and Thoughts
  • PSYC4430 – Vision: Perception and Action
  • PSYC4566 – Psychology of Health and Aging
  • RLGN 1410 – Death and Concepts of the Future
  • SOC 2490 – Sociology of Health and Illness
  • SOC 2620 – Sociology of Aging
  • SOC 3510 – Population Dynamics and Change
  • SOC 3540 – The Sociology of the Elderly and Aging

Faculty of Human Ecology:

Faculty of Nursing

  • NURS 2200 – Selected Topics in Aging and Health
  • NURS 3330 – Women and Health
  • NURS 3400 – Men’s Health: Concerns, Issues and Myths

Faculty of Social Work

  • SWRK 4050 – Selected Topics in Social Work