Learning Gerontology and Videography...

Interviewing Older Adults & Life Review

A new course at UMSL for graduate students and practicing professionals!

Gerontology/Social Work 6130 • Class #11941
May be taken noncredit
or for 3 graduate credit hours

This innovative course combines training in interviewing techniques with video production. Students will learn how to conduct life review interviews with older adults, and then take these skills into the community by interviewing older adults living in various settings. Students will learn how to use a digital video camera and edit video clips on the computer. Student-conducted interviews will be viewed by the instructor and classmates, issues associated with aging will be discussed, and constructive feedback provided. Some of the video clips developed in the course will become part of an educational video clip library in support of gerontology education through UMSL.

Instructor

Tom Meuser, PhD
Director of Gerontology
School of Social Work

This Course Is Open to:

• current UMSL graduate students
• graduate students from other institutions that will accept UMSL credit
• interested individuals with at least a bachelor's degree

Registration Information

Noncredit Registration

Fee: $200

• Online: Click here to register online for Interviewing Older Adults & Life Review using your MasterCard, Visa, or Discover credit card.
• By Phone: Call (314) 516-5974, or for TDD, call (314) 516-5961.
  MasterCard, Visa, or Discover number must be given to assure registration.
• By Mail or Fax: Download and complete a noncredit registration form, and send it by fax or mail with your payment.

Credit Registration

Fee: See the summer 2008 fee schedule

Current UM-St. Louis Students

• Use MyView at https://myview.umsl.edu.
• Visit the Registrar's office in 351 Millennium Student Center.
• Call Ashley Patterson at (314) 516-5974, or for TDD, call (314) 516-5961.

New UM-St. Louis Students

Call Ashley Patterson at (314) 516-5974 to request registration information. [BY TDD: Call (314) 516-5961.]

* Volunteer Interviewees Needed!

Do you know an adult over the age of 60 who would enjoy telling his or her life story? And isn't camera shy? Students in this course will conduct videotaped interviews with 2-3 older adults in a home or another comfortable, quiet setting. Interviews will involve 1-2 visits and up to 2 hours in front of the camera. Students will learn to edit the video material, and create a titled "keepsake video" for the volunteer interviewees to have and share with family.

As noted above, students will also create brief videoclips on various issues of aging (retirement, maintaining independence, health, care giving, grief, etc.) and these will become part of a video clip library for future gerontology education through UMSL. Volunteers must be cognitively normal (i.e., not be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or related disorder) and be willing to sign a video release to participate. No financial compensation is involved.

To volunteer yourself, to suggest someone else, and/or to participate as an organization or facility, please contact Dr. Tom Meuser at meusert@umsl.edu or (314) 516-5421.

The University reserves the right to cancel any program. In the event of cancellation, you will be notified immediately, and all program fees will be refunded. If you must cancel a registration, you are entitled to a full refund only if you cancel prior to the first class meeting. After a credit course begins, refunds are made on a pro-rated basis in accordance with campus policy. Call (314) 516-5961 for information on canceling a registration once a credit course has begun.

The University reserves the right to modify by increase or decrease the fees charged for attendance and other services at the University, including but not limited to educational fees, at any time when in the discretion of the governing board the same is in the best interest of the University, provided that no increases can or will be effective unless approved by the governing board not less than thirty (30) days prior to the beginning of the academic term (semester, etc.) to which the fees are applicable, with all modification of fees to be effective irrespective as to whether fees have or have not been paid by or on behalf of a student prior to the effective date of the modification.