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1.00 Credits
1 credit (Summer Semester) Learn how paleontologists use fossils, rocks, and modern environments to formulate interpretations about the past. This is an introductory field course that covers regional geology including sedimentology, natural history and pale-ontology of fossil localities in the northwest. Learn how to recognize fossils in the rocks, understand where fossils are formed and why fossils are found in specific locations.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Summer Semesters) Lectures and field trips designed to acquaint the student with the geologic history, rock types, structural features, landforms, and natural resources of Northwest Montana. Field trips in the Flathead and Mission Valleys and Glacier Park.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) Prerequisites: Ability to use internet and word processing. An introduction to the major issues, research, problems, current service approaches in the study of aging process. Highlights the themes of demographic trends, theories of aging, lifespan development, person/environment interaction, optimal quality of life including economic and housing issues and cross-cultural and societal factors. An overview of information useful for students in the arts and sciences, business, education, and allied health and nursing programs. This course is cross-referenced with SOC 201.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) Prerequisites: ability to use internet and word processing. Presents current research on neuroscience and physiology of aging. Explores factors that influence health and have implications for preventive measures in disease and health disorders in the aging. Examines nature of health prob-lems and methods of assessing physical, cognitive, and psychological need. Explores aging effects on client and caregiver. This course is cross-referenced with PSY 212.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits (Spring Semester) Prerequisites: ability to use internet and word processing. Corequisites: GERO/SOC 201, GERO/PSY 212. Overview of geriatric exercise principles. Exercise ap-proaches for common age-related syndromes such as os-teroporosis, osteroarthritis, spinal stenosis, stroke, Parkin- son's and Alzheimer' s disease and balance disorders.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Summer Semesters) Prerequisites: ability to use internet and word processing. Analysis of the portrayal of older adults in film and lit-erature. Class discussions focus on the style and thematic content of film and literature, as well as intergenerational relationships. Discussion and short essays enable con-sideration of how film and literature help in the study of aging and also how the process of aging can be a creative force within film and literature. Students will have a final project of producing a life review video or a picture scrap-book with a client.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits (Spring Semester) Prerequisites: ability to use internet and word processing. Corequisites: GERO/SOC 201, GERO/PSY 212. Explores aging as it affects work, leisure recreation, dis-ability and wellness. Examines rehabilitation theory, re-search and application to the practice of today's healthcare professional and care of specific populations.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Intermittently) Prerequisite: HS 100A. The process of aging and its effects. Factors involved in disengagement from work life. Knowledge and skills needed in working with elderly and retired clients. Explo-ration of services available for the elderly. This course is cross-referenced with HS 245.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits (Spring Semester) Prerequisites: ability to use internet and word processing. Corequisites: GERO/SOC 201, GERO/PSY 212. Focuses on the disease process, caring for people with dementing illnesses in acute, community and long term care settings. Discusses the disease process, effects on perfor-mance of activities of daily living, caregiver stress, strate-gies for managing and evaluating care provided by family caregivers and allied health personnel.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits (Summer Semester) Prerequisites: ability to use internet and word processing. Corequisites: GERO/SOC 201, GERO/PSY 212. Interdisciplinary examination and analysis of clinical care of the dying, and psychosocial issues related to the processes of death and dying. Special emphasis on applying ethical principles in resolution of complex problems for individuals with life-threatening illnesses and their families as caregivers or decision makers. Decision-maker models provide basis for clinical case discussions related to dying. Questions of futility examined with associated care issues. Current professional and lay literature discussed in the context of socially chang-ing norms and mores surrounding end-of-life decisions. Hospice and alternative palliative care models are explored for terminally ill patients. Policies, laws, and regulations that impact caregivers and health service providers are reviewed, including advance directives, do-not-resuscitate orders, and assisted suicide. Bereavement as a part of the death, dying, and grieving process for family members is presented.
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