The Graduate Certificate provides an important academic step beyond continuing education for professionals who already possess a bachelor\u2019s or advanced degree and can lead to further graduate training in a health or human service discipline at URI. The program is interdisciplinary, with faculty from eight different URI departments and colleges participating in offering courses and mentoring students: Gerontology, Human Development and Family Studies<\/a>, Communicative Disorders<\/a>, Nursing<\/a>, Nutrition and Food Sciences<\/a>, Pharmacy<\/a>, Physical Therapy<\/a>, and Kinesiology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Human Development and Family Studies<\/strong> Human Development and Family Studies<\/strong> Communicative Disorders<\/strong> Nursing<\/strong> Nutrition and Food Science<\/strong> Pharmacy<\/strong> Physical Therapy<\/strong> Kinesiology<\/strong> Graduate Certificate in Gerontology and Geriatrics The Graduate Certificate provides an important academic step beyond continuing education for professionals who already possess a bachelor\u2019s or advanced degree and can lead to further graduate training in a health or human service discipline at URI. The program is interdisciplinary, with faculty from eight different URI departments and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Required Foundation Courses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
HDF 513 Seminar in Older Adulthood
HDF 540 Interprofessional Teamwork in Health and Human Services<\/p>\n\n\n\nSuggested Course Options<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
HDF 431 Family and the Elderly
HDF 440 Environmental Context of Aging
HDF 597\/98 Advanced Study<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CMD 598 Special Problems<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NUR 555 Advanced Gerontological Nursing I
NUR 556 Practicum in Advanced Gerontological Nursing I
NUR 557 Advanced Gerontological Nursing II
NUR 558 Practicum in Advanced Gerontological Nursing II<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NFS 506 Nutrition in the Community
NFS 591\/92 Special Problems<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PHP 440 Pharmaceutical Care for Special Populations
PHP 542 Evaluation of Controversies in Drug Literature
PHP 593 Advanced Elective Experiential Rotation in Geriatrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PHT 513 Directed Study
PHT 580 Pediatric and Geriatric Physical Therapy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KIN 564 Physiology of Aging
KIN 591 Special Problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"