Looking for an elective to add to your program? AGNG-5000H is an interdisciplinary elective, relevant to all grad students at Trent.
Explore a cutting edge field. Spark new directions for your research career and collectively develop new frameworks for age equity and justice across generations and contexts.
Description:
Aging matters to all of us and everything we study. But that doesn’t mean it’s universal. Images, messages, and policies encourage people to take responsibility for how they grow old. But how people age depends on social and cultural factors. Some of us live and work mostly with people from our own generations. Others are drawn into care relationships across generations. Some people can afford to age well. Others resourcefully navigate the challenges of impoverished later life.
By offering a foundation in interdisciplinary aging, AGNG 5000H explores the diversity of cultural and social aging.
Topics include: long-term care, generational divides, age tech, sexual expression, queer futures, decolonizing time, political economy, intergenerational creativity, lifelong activisms, mortal methods, memory cafes, and political economy.
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Testimonials
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"This course encompassed everything I was looking for in my graduate learning. The intimate class size enabled students and professionals to interact personally. I expanded my boundaries of academic thought for a greater appreciation of the cultural and societal impacts of aging. Overall, it inspired a new research interest and shaped my future career and academic endeavours.” -Linnea Veloce, M.Sc., Psychology, Course Alumnus |
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“I’m always struck by how students who discover Aging Studies quickly understand how relevant it is to their research, whether in social sciences, sciences, interpretive humanities, or arts-based research. In CSAS 5000H, we learn how to address the problems that come with an aging population. But we know there is more to the story. So, we also explore how to benefit from changing demographics. To do so, we study how aging relates to every aspect of social and culture life: data politics, long-term care, environmental sustainability, migration – just to name a few". - Sally Chivers, PhD Gender and Social Studies, and English Literature, Course Instructor |
Course details
Instructor: Dr. Sally Chivers
Location: Symons Campus.
To see the schedule, please visit the Graduate Academic Calendar, available through MyTrent portal.
This course is offered in the Fall term.
Contact:
Sally Chivers - sallychivers@trentu.ca
Trent Center for Aging and Society - aging_grad@trentu.ca
Reminder to be fragrance free: Please refrain from wearing scented products such as perfumes/colognes, hair products, cosmetics, and scented lotions while attending this meeting/event, and avoid using scented soaps, shampoos, and detergents prior to it. These products can trigger serious health issues for an attendee.
