AGING, INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course reviews the main theoretical and conceptual approaches developed to understand aging and old age from different disciplines of the Social Sciences. Contemporary approaches and perspectives are addressed in this regard, promoting analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course has as a central premise that both the understanding of the aging process and the quality of life in old age are challenges of contemporary society, and that they must be approached in a proactive way, considering guidelines that allow them to be investigated and intervened.