Study Guide

Objective

The students are familiar with the idea of person-in-environment, the stages of human development and behavior as multidimensional processes over the lifespan from early childhood to late adulthood. They are able to consider the individual as part of their environment and located in time. They understand how the micro world of personal experiences can be affected by the meso and macro worlds of social trends.

Content

Key perspectives on human development over the lifespan. A life course perspective of development and behavior, values, individual agency, and human connectedness from childhood to late adulthood. Interactions between the biological and psychological and the individual and community dimensions of the individual located in diverse cultural and physical environments and in time.

Location and time

11.01.2024 12.45 - 16.00 MPA4010 ORIENTATION
15.01.2024 12.45 - 16.00 MPB5010
16.01.2024 08.30 - 11.45 MPA6018
23.01.2024 08.30 - 11.45 MPA6019
25.01.2024 09.00 - 11.45 MPA6020
29.01.2024 12.45 - 16.00 MPA4010
01.02.2024 08.30 - 11.45 MPA6018
16.02.2024 08.30 - 11.45 MPA5018

Materials

• Essentials of Human Behavior: Integratig Person, Environment and the Life Course, 2nd ed. Hutchinson, E. (2017)

Teaching methods

Interactive Lectures
Reflection discussions

Exam schedules

16.02.2024 08.30 - 11.45 MPA5018
Re-exam dates TBA

Student workload

27h per credit

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Framework of evaluation is as an attachment in the Curriculum's description.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Framework of evaluation is as an attachment in the Curriculum's description.

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment Criteria
Test 50%
Chapter Questions 30%
Participation 20%