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Using a pre-test/post-test design, college students in an Adulthood & Aging course were compared with students in non-aging-related courses. Attitudes were measured across five domains—affection, comfort, kinship, engagement, and enthusiasm—using an allophilia-based scale adapted for older adults. 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Students’ increase in affection F(1, 58) = 3.05, p = .086) was marginally significant. Adulthood and Aging student ratings of kinship and engagement with older adults were significantly higher than non-aging-related courses, F(1, 58) = 9.95, p = .003) and F(1, 58) = 21.1, p \u003C .001, respectively, but the increase over time was not significantly different.  \nAbstract citation ID: igaf122.2953  \nRETHINKING AGING: DOES AN AGING-RELATED  \nCOURSE INFLUENCE STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF  \nOLDER ADULTS?  \nLisa Wagner, Suniska Patel, Courtney Muchow,  \nElizabeth Hough, and Bhumi Jagadish Kotian, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States  \nToday’s college students are living through a societal age transformation: older adults were 12.4% of the population when they were born (Administration on Aging, 2006) and will be 23% of the population when they reach older adulthood themselves (Mather & Kilduff, 2020). Yet, many college students have limited experience with older people and little knowledge about aging. In addition to increasing students’ knowledge about aging, aging-related college courses may improve attitudes toward older people. Using a pre-test/post-test design, we assessed attitudes toward older people in college students enrolled in aging-related and non-aging-related courses to determine whether attitudes toward older adults changed following the courses. We hypothesized that attitudes toward older people would improve in Adulthood & Aging and would remain unchanged in non-aging-related courses (Social Psychology, Psychology of Prejudice). We measured attitudes using an allophilia scale (liking for another) modified to measure attitudes toward older adults in five domains: affection, comfort, kinship, engagement, enthusiasm (Wagner & Luger, 2017). 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