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ATS1261 - Understanding human behaviour

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Sociology

Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Kerry O'Brien

Offered

Caulfield

First semester 2016 (Day)

Clayton

First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit introduces students to cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic and social understandings of human behaviour. This multi-disciplinary orientation, including studies of the human mind, consciousness, emotion, and normal and abnormal behaviours, provides students with a broad and detailed introduction to understanding human behaviour.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:

an appropriate level of understanding of a range of theoretical orientations to human behaviour
the ability to discriminate between evidence, interpretation, opinion and fact in evaluating these theories and concepts
an ability to communicate, orally and in a written form, their understanding of these theories and concepts.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.