Topics include time management skills, presenting work at conferences and in journals, career options and pathways, preparing job application materials including cover letters and resume, preparing applications to for postgraduate study (including developing vita and statement of intent), planning a research program, preparing grant proposals, work-life balance, and recognizing obstacles in career development. This course will provide students with a better understanding of what they can do professionally on completion of their 3-year undergraduate course in Psychology and what options they have for future study.
SOWK055
This course will provide the student a clear and strong foundation in the understanding of the normal human aging process evidenced by theories and changes in the body processes that define and describes aging.
SOWK065
This course will provide the student a comprehensive approach to understanding the basic health issues affecting the elderly. Students will be exposed to common health issues and challenges seen in the body system of the elderly.
SOWK075
The art of caring requires specific and appropriate skills for effective delivery. Elderly people often have chronic health issues and problems that are long-term and continuing. Finding efficient and effective ways to care for the elderly is always an important issue. This course will provide the student, not only the knowledge, but the needed specific basic skills and care strategies to provide integrated care to health problems affecting the elderly.
SOWK085
This course will introduce participants to the fundamental issues of the moral and ethico-legal issues of ageing. It will commence with a basic overview of ethics and ageing. It will then move from the general to the specific, addressing ethics and ageing from a clinical, socio-cultural, policy and individual levels.
SOWK0900
Assessment :
Coursework 40%
Final Exam 60% (face-to-face)
SOWK0901
Assessment:
Coursework - 40%
Final Exam – 60% (face-to-face)
Students must complete SOWK0900 before taking this course
SOWK0903
Assessment:
Course Work - 40%
Final Exam - 60% (face-to-face)
NB: The offering of this in Summer will be dependent on student registration numbers.
Required Text: Development Through The Lifespan,4,5 or 6/edition, By Laura E. Berk
