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degrees
The department offers bachelor's, master's,
and doctoral degree programs. The bachelor's and master's
degree programs combine traditional classroom study with an
internship where students work under the supervision of an
experienced preceptor. The doctoral program applies knowledge
from the field of gerontology to the identification,
development, provision, and evaluation of products and
services responsive to the special needs of older people.
Students majoring in related fields may choose to minor in
applied gerontology. Our degrees instill a sound
under-standing of the processes of aging, a commitment to
keeping informed of new develop-ments and research, and a
belief that the later years of life have intrinsic value and
offer potential for human fulfillment. The imagina-tion,
knowledge, and skills of professionals who embrace this
philosophy will be increasingly necessary if American
communities are to meet the needs of their growing population
of older adults.
The bachelor's
degree program in applied gerontology prepares students to
work with older people in a wide variety of settings,
including long-term care and retirement facilities, senior
centers, government offices on aging at all levels, home
health care agen-cies, adult day care programs, adult
protective services agencies, and others. The bachelor's
degree is an individualized, career-oriented course of study
that can accommodate both full- and part-time students,
students with or without professional experi-ence, and
incoming freshmen and transfer students. In all, 124 semester
hours are required for the degree, including 42 hours of
advanced work. Students receive 6 semester hours of credit for
an intern-ship in an agency or facility serving older
people.
Students in social work who wish to work
primarily with older clients may obtain a B.S.W. degree with a
double major in social work and applied gerontology. The
requirements for this degree include 55 semester hours in
social work and related courses, and 24 semester hours in
gerontology.
The master's degree program prepares students
for professional careers in the field of gerontology. The
45-46 semester-hour program includes 9 semes-ter hours of core
courses in aging, 15-18 semester hours of required coursework
in the student’s major, 3-6 semester hours of credit for an
internship in a facility or agency serving older people, and 3
semester hours of credit for a capstone seminar on
applications in practice. The balance of the degree is
comprised of elective coursework in gerontology and related
fields. A prerequisite for the program is 3 hours of social
gerontology; this may be taken concur-rently with courses
applying to the degree.
Two majors are
available:
LONG-TERM CARE,
SENIOR HOUSING AND AGING SERVICES (LSHA)
The LSHA curriculum prepares students to
plan, develop, administer, and evaluate residential and
community-based programs for older people. Three core
courses introduce to the nature of aging, health issues in
later life, and the spectrum of aging services. Advanced
coursework provides a grounding in the provision of senior
housing and related health and social services. Students
complete a minimum of 3-semester hours (500 clock hours) of
supervised internship for the LSHA major. Those preparing
for licensure as a nursing facility administrator complete
and additional 500-clock-hour of internship in a licensed
facility.
GENERAL
STUDIES IN AGING (GSAG)
The
GSAG major is designed both for individuals who are already
working in the field of aging and for students with highly
individualized interests and career or educational plans.
Required courses in theories of aging, retirement, minority
aging, ethics and senior housing extend the knowledge of
aging gained in core courses. Fifteen semester hours of
elective coursework allows the selection of support-ing
courses in such areas as adult educa-tion, health promotion,
psychology, public administration, recreation, sociology,
and others. A 500-clock-hour (3 semester credit hour)
internship is required for the GSAG
major.
The goal of the
Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Applied Gerontology is to
produce graduates who will exercise leadership in the
development and evaluation of innovative health and human
services programs for the elderly. All students in the
doctoral program master the gerontological theories,
knowledge, and research techniques needed both to make
policies that govern and facilitate such programs and to be
advocates for these policies. The program’s curriculum
includes required courses on theories of aging, formal
organization of aging services, health and aging, research
methods, statistics and policy in aging. Additionally,
students must select from groups of related courses in
gerontology, planning and administering services and policy
issues in aging.
The department regularly offers more than a
dozen undergraduate and more than two dozen graduate courses
including courses at the doctoral level. Courses are taught by
full-time faculty, affiliated faculty in other departments,
practitioners in Texas and other states, and teaching fellows.
Many on-campus courses are website enhanced, and all courses
for the Master’s in Long-term Care, Senior Housing and Aging
Services and for the Graduate Specialist Certificate in Aging
are available online. The majority of our undergraduate
courses are taught in the mornings and early afternoons on
Tuesdays and Thursdays. On-campus graduate courses are
scheduled weekday evenings and on Saturdays. The department
has a long tradition of conducting intensive 9-day courses at
the graduate level in January and May. These courses can be
helpful in accelerating progress towards the degree, meeting
the residency requirement for the doctorate, or providing an
on-campus learning experience for students in our online
programs.
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Applications for admission to the University of
North Texas are made using Texas Common Application, available
online from ApplyTexas. The application can be submitted
online at the ApplyTexas website, or by filling out a copy of
the form. At UNT, undergraduate and graduate applications are
processed by the Office of Admissions and the Toulouse School
of Graduate Studies, respectively. Use the following links to
obtain detailed information about general and degree-specific
admission requirements, application fees, application
procedures and deadlines.
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