Population Health and Aging, CAS

Faculty Contact:

Jennifer Karas Montez, Professor of Sociology

312 Lyman Hall

315-443-9064

This graduate certificate of advanced study (CAS) provides matriculated graduate students with systematic, focused training in the area of population health and aging. The program will expose students to the key theoretical orientations and cutting-edge methodological training that lies at the nexus of medical sociology, social gerontology, and demography. Students must complete 15 credits, of which three are required – SOC 667: Population Processes; SOC 655: Sociology of Health and Illness; SOC 664: Aging and Society. Students may select six credits of health and/or aging electives, three of which must be a SOC graduate-level course.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Understand key theoretical orientations in population health and aging
2. Apply standard and cutting-edge methodological and statistical techniques
3. Develop an interdisciplinary orientation that draws on medical sociology, social gerontology, and demography
4. Articulate the ways that social processes, places, and policies shape population health and aging
5. Obtain professional socialization in preparation for academic, governmental, private-sector, and non-profit positions

Requirements

Students must complete 9 graduate level credits in the following courses:

SOC 667 - Population Processes 3 credit(s)
and
SOC 655 - Sociology of Health and Illness 3 credit(s)
and
SOC 664 - Aging and Society 3 credit(s)
or (with permission)
SWK 657 - Processes of Aging 3 credit(s)

Electives

Students must complete 6 credits of graduate level courses in health and/or aging. At least 3 credits must be from a SOC course. Students may petition to use 3 credits from other health and/or aging courses.

SOC 600 - Selected Topics 1-6 credit(s)
SOC 643 - Aging in the Context of Family Life 3 credit(s)
SOC 800 - Selected Topics 1-6 credit(s)
BIO 616 - Biology of Aging 3 credit(s)
LAW 777 - Elder Law 3 credit(s)
PAI 730 - Problems in Public Administration 1-3 credit(s)