Human behavior in the social environment (5 cr)
Code: SX00FD64-3002
General information
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 15.12.2024
Timing
01.01.2025 - 25.05.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
School of Wellbeing
Campus
Myllypurontie 1
Teaching languages
- English
Seats
0 - 40
Degree programmes
- Social Services (in English)
Groups
-
SXG24S1Degree Programme in Social Services päivä
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.
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.