Human behavior in the social environment (5 cr)

Code: SX00FD64-3002

General information

Enrollment: 02.12.2024 - 15.12.2024
Registration for the implementation has ended.

Timing: 01.01.2025 - 25.05.2025
Implementation is running.

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 cr

Local portion: 5 cr

Mode of delivery: On-campus

Unit: (2019-2024) School of Wellbeing

Campus: Myllypurontie 1

Teaching languages: English

Seats: 0 - 40

Degree programmes: Social Services (in English)

Teachers: Smarika KC; Sylvia Hakari; Eveliina Korpela

Teacher in charge: Smarika KC

Groups: SXG24S1
Degree Programme in Social Services päivä

Course: SX00FD64

Implementation has 13 reservations. Total duration of reservations is 29 h 0 min.

Time	Topic	Location
Fri 17.01.2025 time 09:00 - 12:00 (3 h 0 min)	Human behavior in the social environment SX00FD64-3002	MPA5020 Oppimistila
Wed 22.01.2025 time 09:00 - 12:00 (3 h 0 min)	Human behavior in the social environment SX00FD64-3002	MPA4010 Oppimistila
Fri 24.01.2025 time 09:00 - 11:30 (2 h 30 min)	Human behavior in the social environment SX00FD64-3002	MPA5020 Oppimistila
Mon 27.01.2025 time 13:00 - 16:00 (3 h 0 min)	Human behavior in the social environment SX00FD64-3002	MPA5020 Oppimistila
Thu 30.01.2025 time 14:30 - 16:15 (1 h 45 min)	Human behavior in the social environment SX00FD64-3002	MPA2019 Oppimistila
Tue 11.02.2025 time 14:30 - 16:00 (1 h 30 min)	Sosiaalialan suomi	MPA3007 Oppimistila
Fri 14.02.2025 time 12:45 - 16:00 (3 h 15 min)	Human behavior in the social environment SX00FD64-3002	MPA5020 Oppimistila
Tue 25.02.2025 time 14:30 - 16:00 (1 h 30 min)	Sosiaalialan suomi	MPA3007 Oppimistila
Wed 26.02.2025 time 13:00 - 16:00 (3 h 0 min)	Human behavior in the social environment SX00FD64-3002	MPA2019 Oppimistila
Mon 03.03.2025 time 09:00 - 12:00 (3 h 0 min)	Exam / Human behavior in the social environment SX00FD64-3002	MPC3001 Oppimistila
Mon 03.03.2025 time 16:30 - 17:30 (1 h 0 min)	REMOTE / Sosiaalialan suomi, verkkoklinikka, Join Zoom Meeting https://metropolia.zoom.us/j/69310741081 Meeting ID: 693 1074 1081
Tue 11.03.2025 time 14:30 - 16:00 (1 h 30 min)	Sosiaalialan suomi: Human behavior in the social environment SX00FD64-3002	MPA6019 Oppimistila
Fri 21.03.2025 time 09:00 - 10:00 (1 h 0 min)	Remotely: Open feedback session / Human behavior in the social environment SX00FD64-3002

Changes to reservations may be possible.

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

17.01.2025 09.00 - 12.00 MPA5020 (Orientation) (SH & SK)
22.01.2025 09.00 - 12.00 MPA4010 (SH)
24.01.2025 08.30 - 11.15 MPA5020 (SK)
27.01.2025 13.00 - 16.00 MPA5020 (SH)
30.01.2025 14.30 - 16.15 MPA2019 (SK)
14.02.2025 12.45 - 16.00 MPA5020 (SK)
26.02.2025 13.00 - 16.00 MPA2019 (SK)
03.03.2025 09.00 - 12.00 MPC3001 (Exam)
21.03.2025 09.00 - 10.00 (Remote feedback session)

The course includes Sosiaalialan suomi (Finnish for Social Services) meetings, which Finnish language learners attend as part of this course
11.02.2025 14.30 - 16.00 MPA3007 Sosiaalialan suomi (EK)
25.02.2025 14.30 - 16.00 MPA3007 Sosiaalialan suomi (EK)
03.03.2025 14.45 - 16.15 ZOOM-session, Sosiaalialan suomi: Ask anything about Finnish grammar, vocabulary or language learning (EK)

Materials

Essentials of Human Behavior: Integrating Person, Environment and the Life Course, 3rd ed. Hutchinson, E. (2020)

Teaching methods

Lectures, reading reflections, class participation and exam

Exam schedules

Exam date: 03.03.2025 09.00 - 12.00 MPC3001

Re-exam dates: TBA

Further information

The course includes Sosiaalialan suomi (Finnish for Social Services) meetings, which Finnish language learners attend as part of this course
11.02.2025 14.30 - 16.00 MPA3007 Sosiaalialan suomi (EK)
25.02.2025 14.30 - 16.00 MPA3007 Sosiaalialan suomi (EK)
03.03.2025 14.45 - 16.15 ZOOM-session, Sosiaalialan suomi: Ask anything about Finnish grammar, vocabulary or language learning (EK)
19.03.2025 14.30 - 16.00 MPA6019 Sosiaalialan suomi (EK)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

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

Assessment criteria, approved/failed