James E. Trela Graduate Program Director Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Maryland Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Public Policy Bldg., Room 227 Baltimore, Maryland 21250

If you are interested in the the Applied MA in sociology send e mail to trela@umbc.edu.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Jim Trela received an MA (1968) and Ph.D. (1970) from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and has been on the faculty at UMBC since 1973. Academic interests include aging and the life cycle; age and economic well being; age and political behavior.

2003 -04 COURSES

Winter 2003: Social Problems in an Aging Society (socy 358).

Spring 2004: Basic Concepts in Sociology (socy 101).
Community Research Laboratory (socy 607)

Fall 2003: Basic Concepts in Sociology (socy 101)

Sociology of Aging (socy 430/630)

CURRENT RESEARCH

The relationship between age and gambling and gambling addiction; the social implication of state sponsored gambling and an aging population; social and psychological stimulation of gambling and its appeal to the elderly.

COMMUNICATION

227, Public Policy Building
mail to: trela@umbc.edu