Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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IH 302 - Partnering with Elders in Art and Creativity Enhancement (SR)


Credits: (3 credits)


Today’s students are tomorrow’s decision-makers, independent of their ultimate careers, it will be their decisions that collectively decide the fate of our planet.  This course provides a unique opportunity for students to acquire knowledge in the field of Interdisciplinary Gerontology Health Promotion in the setting of a senior living community.  Students will learn about physical, social, creative and spiritual needs of older adults.  Senior concerns such as Isolation/Loneliness and changing life circumstances/abilities will be explored.  Students will work with an elder teacher and complete a social and life history, develop a professional relationship and participate with their elder teacher in an expressive arts program.

This is a Sustainability-Related course

Prerequisite/Corequisite

None

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to do the following:
 

  1. Describe the science and therapeutic arts of creative aging
  2. Use critical thinking skills to analyze and evaluate older adult’s safety and efficacy in the use of Health Promotion/Enhancement activities
  3. Communicate effectively and professionally in verbal, nonverbal, artistic and written formats
  4. Identify professional standards and social responsibilities related to the care of an older adult population
  5. Explore bridging the generation through pairing creativity and inter generational community art education
  6. Enhance biological, psychological, social and spiritual transformation and wellness using evidence-based practice expressive arts activities
  7. Cultivate expression and creative growth in the context of self-discovery


Frequency of Offering:

Every other year



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