HDEV 451 - Midlife Transitions

Units: 4
Analysis of the midlife crisis seen through a life cycle perspective as only one of the predictable crises of adult life experienced by both men and women in contemporary society. Addresses both dangers and opportunities of this life cycle passage.

Prerequisites: Junior, senior or post-baccalaureate standing.
Equivalent Quarter Course: Any one from: HDEV 4310, HDEV 4361, HDEV 4362, HDEV 4363.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

demonstrate basic knowledge of current views of the midlife crisis using an interdisciplinary perspective
understand how gender, culture, ethnicity and social class both condition and provide a context for the differing responses of individuals and members of different groups to the experience of midlife crisis.
describe at least three different theories and research methods that have been applied to the study of the midlife crisis both in the U.S. and other cultures.