Study Programmes 2016-2017
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| Psychosocial Aspects of Ageing | ||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Stéphane Adam | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Learning unit contents :
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| The overall objective of the course is to deconstruct some stereotypes associated with the concept of aging. More concretely, various issues related to or associated with normal aging (senescence) are considered, as: (1) the origins and characteristics of the aging population (demographics), (2) physiological aging, (3) the questioning of psychometric model of cognitive decline, (4) the description of some theories explaining how a person adapts to his aging and maintains well-being and a good quality of life, and (5) the description of some transitional periods occuring during aging such as retirement, health, loneliness, greaf etc. | ||
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Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
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| To have some theoritical and methodological knowledge related to the actual knowledge about normal and pathological aging. | ||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| No prerequisites required | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Lectures with slides support. | ||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Course Content: Oral presentation + Slides available online after each course (via MyULg)
Reading (s) Recommended (s): Bibliographical supplements (articles, chapters) can be posted online (also via MyULg). |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written exam (multiple choice questions and/or true -false).
Points per question: 1 point for a correct answer, 0.5 points for a mistake, 0 if no response or a response "I do not know » |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Academic:
ADAM Stéphane (28.46) - stephane.adam@ulg.ac.be Assistant: MISSOTTEN Pierre (20.58) - pmissotten@ulg.ac.be Secretary: BERSOUX Martine (20.81) - martine.bersoux@ulg.ac.be |
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