Elder Law Certificate Program Requirements
Students should notify the associate dean for academic affairs of their intention to satisfy the certificate requirements before the end of their first full academic year. In addition to all other degree requirements, students must complete a minimum of 20 credit hours of approved course work that satisfies the following distribution requirements:
Required Courses
Elder Law Externship or Introduction to Elder Law
Elder Law Research Project
Estates and Trusts
Selection of one of the following:
SW 833 Social Work and Aging
COMS 784 Proseminar in Communication and Aging a/k/a PSYCH 785 (when
offered)
HDFL 741 Readings in Gerontology (when offered)
PSYCH 691 The Psychology of Aging (when offered)
PSYCH 787 Gerontology Proseminar (when offered)
Selection of two from the following:
Administrative Law
Disability Law (when offered)
Employment Discrimination
Elder Law Seminar
Estate Planning: Practice
Estate Planning: Principles
Healthcare Financing and Regulation
Health Law and Policy
Independent Research (on approved Elder Law topic)
Law and Bioethics
Public Benefit Law
Public Policy Clinic (on approved Elder Law topic)
Public Policy, Policy Analysis, and Disability Law (when offered)
Substitutions may be authorized by the Elder Law Program Director.
For further information contact Prof. Sandra McKenzie, scm@ku.edu.
