Course ID: | GRNT 7400E. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Cognitive Health and Aging |
Course Description: | Changes in cognitive function across the lifespan, with
corresponding changes in neurological structures, and behaviors
that promote cognitive vitality. |
Oasis Title: | Cognitive Health and Aging |
Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in GRNT 7400 |
Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | 1. Identify the basic parts of the brain structures and how
the brain executes the various behaviors that support
activities of daily living.
2. Analyze cognition and differentiate mental operations that
result from neurological function.
3. Evaluate the ways in which the brain changes with age and
examine the degree to which neurological aging impacts
behavior.
4. Examine the ways in which cognition changes with age and
relate those changes back to the brain itself.
5. Critique, based on the evidence, guidelines for the
promotion of health behaviors for each of these health
classifications.
6. Construct a set of public health guidelines for aging
populations that promote cognitive vitality. |
Topical Outline: | I. Biological foundations of behavior (from evolutionary to
public health approaches)
II. The nervous system
III. Lifespan brain development
IV. Cognition
V. Cognitive neuroscience
VI. A focus on behavior |