11/24/2024 2:10:34 AM	PSYCH 56 Course Outline as of Fall 2008	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  PSYCH 56	Title:  AGING, DYING & DEATH
Full Title:  Aging, Dying and Death
Last Reviewed:12/9/2019

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  PSYCH 6

Catalog Description:

Examination of aging, death, dying and bereavement in contemporary society.  

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100.

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Examination of aging, death, dying and bereavement in contemporary society.  

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	E	Lifelong Learning and Self Development		Fall 1981
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 2025	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Both Certificate and Major Applicable

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1.  Describe current trends in life expectancies, demographics, and

   attitudes toward adulthood, "old age," death and dying.

2.  Compare and contrast prominent theories on adult development and

   aging.

3.  Summarize age-related physical diseases and psychological problems.

4.  Explain how the process of aging affects intelligence, memory,

   creativity, problem-solving and decision-making skills.

5.  Describe different types of intimate partnerships in adulthood.

6.  Examine the role of gender, socioeconomic status, personality, and

   health on work choice.  Include a description of retirement, its

   reasons, timing, and effects.

7.  Provide a list of stressors encountered by the aging person and

   generate ways to ameliorate the stress.

8.  Discriminate among concepts of suicide, assisted-suicide, and

   euthanasia; and summarize death/burial rituals and the grieving

   process following death.

9.  Summarize a variety of modes/types of death and review the

   bereavement, grief and mourning process of the survivor.

10. Describe the American funeral system, with emphasis in death

   notification, funeral service selection and its cost, and body

   disposition.  

Topics and Scope

1.  Defining the Journey:  Some Assumptions, Definitions, and Methods

2.  Theories of Adult Development and Learning About Death:  The

   Influences of Sociocultural Forces

3.  Physical Changes

4.  Health, Health Habits, and Health Care

5.  Changes in Cognitive Abilities

6.  Social Roles

7.  Development of Relationships

8.  Work and Retirement

9.  Personality Stability and Change

10. Stress and Resistance

11. Death, Dying and Bereavement

12. Facing Death:  Living with Life-Threatening Illness

13. Medical Ethics:  Dying in a Technological Age

14. Survivors:  Understanding the Experience of Loss

15. Late Rites:  Funerals and Body Disposition

16. The Law and Death

17. Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents

18. Suicide

19. Risks of Death in the Modern World

20. Beyond Death/After Life  

Assignments:

1.  Read approximately 25-35 pages per week.

2.  Take two midterm exams and one final on lecture, reading concepts

   and terminology.

3.  Write 2-3 evaluation and/or analytical papers, approximately

   2-3 pages in length on assigned readings and lectures.

4.  Write a term or course research paper approximately 4-5 pages in

   length for the purpose of learning research skills, enhancing course

   knowledge, and improving writing skills.  

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 50 - 75%
Research Paper, Evaluation & Analytical Papers
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 0 - 0%
None
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 25 - 50%
Multiple choice, True/false, Fill-in, short answer
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 0 - 0%
None

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

DeSpelder, Lynne Ann; Lee Albert

  THE LAST DANCE:  ENCOUNTERING DEATH AND DYING, McGraw-Hill, 2005.

Corr, Charles A.; Nabe, Clyde M.; Corr, Donna M.

  DEATH AND DYING, LIFE AND LIVING, Wadsworth/Thomson, 2003.

Leming, Michael, R.; Dickinson, George E.

  UNDERSTANDING DEATH, DYING AND BEREAVEMENT, Wadsworth/Thomson, 2002.

Bee, Helen L.; Biorklund Barbara R.

  THE JOURNEY OF ADULTHOOD, Prentice Hall, 2004.

Foos, Paul W.; Clark, Cherie M.

  HUMAN AGING, Allyn & Bacon, 2003.

Hoyer, William J.; Roodin, Paul A.; Rybash, John Michael

  ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND AGING, McGraw Hill, 2003.

Hooyman, Nancy R.; Kiyak, Asuman H.

  SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY:  A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE, Allyn & Bacon,

  2002.  

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