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Unit of Study OCCU2005 - Lifespan Development and Occupational Transitions (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

This unit explores human development across the lifespan and students will learn about occupational roles in infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and older adulthood. Students will explore a range of personal, cultural, social and environmental factors that influence occupational role acquisition, transition and loss over the lifespan.

Unit content

  1. Occupations from a life course perspective
  2. Infancy and early childhood
  3. Middle childhood and adolescence
  4. Early and middle adulthood
  5. Older adulthood
  6. Cultural influences on lifespan development and occupation engagement

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Term2
Term2
Gold Coast
Term2
Term2

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

discuss the key elements of lifespan development and explain how these relate to occupational performance

analyse the dynamic process of occupational role acquisition, transition and loss across the lifespan

analyse the important issues influencing occupations and occupational role performance across the lifespan

describe how culture influences lifespan development and occupational transitions

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Sigelman, C. K., George, L. D., Cunial, K., Kohler, M., Ballam, N., & Rider, E. A. , 2021, Life Span Human Development , 4th ed, Cengage, Australia. ISBN: 9780170452816.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.