GERO 2016: Gerontology Practicum III

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Course Format Lecture 0.0 h + Seminar 8.0 h + Lab. 0.0 h
Credits 4.0

Course Description

Project work is integral to providing services within the senior service sector. This practicum provides an opportunity for students to integrate, synthesize, and apply skills and theoretical approaches they have learned in the classroom to a specific project in a practice/agency setting with older adults. Students spend one day a week implementing a project or a portion of a larger project for a community and/or organizational setting under the supervision of an agency supervisor. Graded S/U.

Registration in this course is restricted to students admitted to the Diploma in Gerontology.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum "C-" grade in all of the following: GERO 1100, 1115, 1215, and 1300; and an "S" grade in GERO 1816 and 1916; or permission of the program coordinator.

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