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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Human Behaviour in the Social Environment

  • Unit Code

    SWK2104

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit introduces the theoretical discoveries, research findings and personal insights about the development of a human being from birth to death. Particular emphasis will be given to gender and culture as contexts of development.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse different developmental events from the perspectives of the major theories of development cross cultural psychology, cognitive, learning, humanistic and psychoanalytic and recognise those theories when used by others to analyse events.
  2. Describe development, including biosocial, cognitive and psychological as an ongoing set of processes involving both continuity and change by giving examples from the literature.
  3. Explain how research contributes to the understanding of development and evaluate and use research findings to investigate a topic.
  4. Recall important developmental concepts and be able to recognise these concepts in various situations.

Unit Content

  1. Adolescence.
  2. Death and Dying.
  3. Early Adulthood.
  4. Heredity and Environment.
  5. Introduction to Life Span Development.
  6. Late Adulthood.
  7. Middle Adulthood.
  8. Prenatal Development & Birth.
  9. The First Two Years.
  10. The Play Years.
  11. The School Years.
  12. Theories of Life Span Development.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Interactive lectures and tutorials, student discussion boards and groups.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewLiterature Review *40%
AssignmentAssignment 60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewLiterature Review *40%
AssignmentAssignment60%

* Assessment item identified for English language proficiency

Text References

  • ^ White, F., Hayes, B., & Livesey, D. (2015). Developmental psychology: From infancy to adulthood. (4th ed.). Frenchs Forest, Australia: Pearson Prentice Hall. Note:
  • Riger, S. (2000). Transforming psychology, gender in theory and practice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Gardiner, H.W., & Kosmitzki, C. (2010). Lives across cultures: Cross cultural human development. (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
  • Robbins, S. P., Chatterjee, P., & Canda, E. R. (2012). Contemporary human behavior theory: A critical perspective for social work. Boston, MA: Pearson.
  • Howe, D. (2011). Attachment across the life-course: A brief introduction. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave-Macmillian.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Human Behaviour in the Social Environment

  • Unit Code

    SWK2104

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit introduces the theoretical discoveries, research findings and personal insights about the development of a human being from birth to death. Particular emphasis will be given to gender and culture as contexts of development.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse different developmental events from the perspectives of the major theories of development cross cultural psychology, cognitive, learning, humanistic and psychoanalytic and recognise those theories when used by others to analyse events.
  2. Describe development, including biosocial, cognitive and psychological as an ongoing set of processes involving both continuity and change by giving examples from the literature.
  3. Explain how research contributes to the understanding of development and evaluate and use research findings to investigate a topic.
  4. Recall important developmental concepts and be able to recognise these concepts in various situations.

Unit Content

  1. Adolescence.
  2. Death and Dying.
  3. Early Adulthood.
  4. Heredity and Environment.
  5. Introduction to Life Span Development.
  6. Late Adulthood.
  7. Middle Adulthood.
  8. Prenatal Development & Birth.
  9. The First Two Years.
  10. The Play Years.
  11. The School Years.
  12. Theories of Life Span Development.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Interactive lectures and tutorials, student discussion boards and groups.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewLiterature Review *40%
AssignmentAssignment 60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewLiterature Review *40%
AssignmentAssignment60%

* Assessment item identified for English language proficiency

Text References

  • ^ White, F., Hayes, B., & Livesey, D. (2015). Developmental psychology: From infancy to adulthood. (4th ed.). Frenchs Forest, Australia: Pearson Prentice Hall. Note:
  • Riger, S. (2000). Transforming psychology, gender in theory and practice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Gardiner, H.W., & Kosmitzki, C. (2010). Lives across cultures: Cross cultural human development. (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
  • Robbins, S. P., Chatterjee, P., & Canda, E. R. (2012). Contemporary human behavior theory: A critical perspective for social work. Boston, MA: Pearson.
  • Howe, D. (2011). Attachment across the life-course: A brief introduction. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave-Macmillian.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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