Adult Development

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

Student Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate familiarity with basic concepts relating to adulthood and aging issues.
• Compare societal and individual aging in the US and other regions of the world today.
• Identify factors that contribute to health and wellness among adults of all ages.
• Demonstrate an understanding of aging in a family context.
• Analyze trends and probable effects of societal aging in relation to societal structures including gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and family.

Minerva’s Academic Curriculum Health & Wellness Student Learning Objectives (SLOs)

• Demonstrate knowledge of factors that contribute to physical and/or mental health.
• Analyze the connection(s) of different aspects of wellness (i.e. choices or actions to achieve health/well-being) to the overall health of an individual or population.
• Synthesize information from multiple sources to support arguments and/or inform decisions.
• Integrate and cite sources accurately and correctly.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Online Academic Integrity Assignment	5 points
Respondus video check	5 points
Chapter quizzes (lowest two scores dropped)	140 points
Implicit Association Test (IAT) assignment	15 points
Welfare State Assignment	15 points
Older Adults Technology Use Final Paper assignment	30 points

Your total points earned will be converted to a percentage (out of the total possible points) and rounded to one decimal place. A letter grade will be assigned to the percentage which will be entered into Genie. Extra points to bump up your letter grade will not be awarded.

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
100% to 92%	A
< 92% to 89%	A-
< 89% to 87%	B+
< 87% to 82%	B
< 82% to 79%	B-
< 79% to 77%	C+
< 77% to 72%	C
< 72% to 69%	C-
< 69% to 67%	D+
< 67% to 62%	D
< 62% to 59%	D-
< 59% to 0%	F

Attendance/Participation:

This class is fully online. Attendance and participation are tracked by accessing Canvas and completing assignments on time. There are no required face to face meetings. Please check your emails and Canvas EVERY DAY to stay current. Set your phone to receive class emails and Canvas Announcements.

If you are facing a situation that leads to your missing more than 3 quizzes / assignments, you must: (a) let the instructor know via email describing your situation and (b) contact the Dean of Students (deanofstudents@uncg.edu) to seek assistance and come up with a plan for the semester. If you don’t do this, your grade will be negatively affected above and beyond loss of quiz points, and you may be dropped from the course.

Please note the dates / times of quizzes and assignments carefully. If you miss a deadline, there are no make-ups. If you will miss for a university-approved reason, please let the instructor know ahead of time and accommodations can be made.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Required: Aging and the Life Course: An Introduction to Social Gerontology (2025). Jill Quadagno. McGraw Hill: New York. ISBN13: 978-1-260-83772-8