GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
PSYCHOLOGY OF ADULTS/FEL214A
Course Title: PSYCHOLOGY OF ADULTS
Credits 2 ECTS 4
Semester 4 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assoc. Prof. Dr. İbrahim KISAÇ
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/kisac
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  kisac@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Defines development and its basic concepts
Knows dvelopmental stages and tasks
Knows theories of adulthood
Knows psychical, cognitive and psychosocial features of young adulthood
Knows psychical, cognitive and psychosocial features of middle adulthood
Knows psychical, cognitive and psychosocial features of late adulthood
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  No prerequisite for this course
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  No recommended optional programme component
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  Explaining course content and its goals
2. Week  Basic concepts and principles
3. Week  Theories about adulthood
4. Week  Theories about adulthood
5. Week  Theories about adulthood
6. Week  Physical and cognitive development in early adulthood
7. Week  Personality and social development in early adulthood
8. Week  Marriage
9. Week  Midterm exam
10. Week  Physical and cognitive development in middle adulthood
11. Week  Personality and social development in middle adulthood
12. Week  Physical and cognitive development in late adulthood
13. Week  Personality and social development in late adulthood
14. Week  Retirement
15. Week  End of the life and death
16. Week  
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Berk, L.E. (2004). Development through life span. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Onur, B. (1995). Gelişim Psikolojisi: Yetişkinlik, Yaşlılık ve Ölüm. Ankara: İmge Yayınevi.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, presentation, question and answer, discussion.
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  None
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
0
0
 Assignment
0
0
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
2
14
28
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
6
4
24
 Searching in Internet and Library
8
4
32
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
2
4
8
 Final and Studying for Final
2
4
8
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
100
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
4
 ECTS: 
4
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Students have got the sufficiency about "department of philosophy and related fields teaching" and "educational sciences". They know the laws and rules about their profession.X
2Students take the theoretical and practical knowledge which is interested in "department of philosophy and related fields teaching" and "educational sciences" to solve the educational problems.X
3Students determine the educational problems and offer a solution these problems. They choose and practise the methods of analytic about these problems.X
4Students explain the theory, the model, the principle and the generalization about philosophy, psychology, sociology and logic. According to this explanation, they declare the basic principles of department of philosophy and related fields teaching.X
5Students know the individual, peripheral and social factors which have an effect on the human relations. By this way, they acquire effective listening, positive feedback and creative problem solving.X
6Students acquire some suffiencies that inquiry, evaluation, decision making, analyse and syntheses, relating between events, comparison, gain a different viewpoint, life-wide learning, logical thinking etc.X
7Students organize activity and material building about related field teaching. They choose and use the educational technology for quality education activity.X
8Students research and evaulate scientifically the notions and the idea about profession of a teacher and the education technology.X
9Students know the basic notion of growing and know the characteristics of adolescence and adult periods.X
10Students research related literature and use data bases. They use effectively the library, internet, the museum and the research center.X
11They acquire the skills that learning to learn, self-regulation, life long learning, critical thinking, creative thinking, logical thinking.X
12Students obey the professional and ethical rules and participate in the collusive practices. They protect the values of democratic, social, scientific, cultural and ethical.X