SRF 212Sexualities and Relationships in Mid/Later Life

This course will introduce students to the complexities, tribulations, and joys of navigating sexuality and relationships as humans age. Topics may include physical/biological changes, navigating dementia, youth-focused culture, relationship dissolution and relationship anew, death of partners, family and friends, the menopausal transition, and ageism. Through this course students will increase their understanding of how sexuality and relationships change, grow, and remain the same as people age, and how age intersects with such things as race, gender, sexual orientation, ability/disability, culture, socioeconomic status, and societal expectations, allowing reflection on their own bias, experience, and aging scripts.