Adulthood and Aging Across the Lifespan

Undergraduate / Graduate

This course takes the full arc of adult life: from the underappreciated complexity of midlife to the biological, relational, and existential terrain of later life. Rather than treating adulthood as a long plateau that ends with "old age," this course treats every decade after twenty as developmentally meaningful. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship in developmental psychology, sociology, gerontology, and public health, students examine how adults change biologically, psychologically, and socially across the lifespan. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to understand, assess, and work with adults across the full lifespan, not only with older adults.