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Graduate
Certificate in Geriatrics and
Gerontology
The
Graduate Certificate provides an
important, academic step beyond continuing
education for professionals who already
possess a bachelor's or advanced degree
and can lead to further graduate training
in a health or human service discipline at
URI. The program is interdisciplinary,
with faculty from eight different URI
departments and colleges participating in
offering courses and mentoring students:
Gerontology, Human
Development and Family
Studies,
Nursing,
Nutrition,
Pharmacy,
Physical
Therapy,
Exercise
Science,
and Communicative
Disorders.
A
minimum of five (5) courses will be
required: HSS 530 plus additional courses
chosen from two or more departments or
colleges.
Required
Foundation Course:
Human Science and Services
HSS 530 Iinterdisciplinary Geriatric
Teamwork
Suggested
Course Options (Others may also
apply):
Communicative Disorders
CMD 598 Special Problems
Human
Development and Family Studies
HDF 431 Family and the Elderly
HDF440 Environmental Context of Aging
HDF 514 Seminar in Older Adulthood
HDF 597/98 Advanced Study
Nursing
NUR 555 Advanced Gerontological Nursing
I
NUR 557 Advanced Gerontological Nursing
II
Nutrition
and Food Science
NFS 506 Community Nutrition
NFS 591/92 Special Problems
Pharmacy
PHP 440 Pharmaceutical Care for Special
Populations
PHP 542 Evaluation of Contoversies in Drug
Literature
PHP 593 Advanced Elective Experiential
Rotation in Geriatrics
Physical
Therapy
PHT 513 Directed Study
PHT 580 Pediatric and Geriatric Physical
Therapy
Exercise
Science
PEX 564 Physiology of Aging
PEX 591 Special Problems
For
more information, please contact Dr.
Phillip Clark at 401-874-2689 or
aging@uri.edu.
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