Apply Today for Global Health Aging in Japan Course with Summer Travel
Application Deadline December 8 at 5 p.m.
A faculty-led travel experience, the three credit course explores and analyzes how broader cultural norms and social institutions of contemporary Japan shape individuals’ experiences of growing older, life-stage transitions, and intergenerational relations through a life course perspective.
The course is informed by an interdisciplinary gerontological approach integrating visits to and engagement with academic, business, health and medical, policy and socio-cultural sites in Japan. Students will participate in a two-week faculty-led travel experience in Japan during the summer, tentatively scheduled for June 8-22, 2024.