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| Module Scheme Semester One 2024-25 | |||||||
| Module Name: | Ageing through the Life-Course | ||||||
| Module Code: | LC664 | Academic Year: | 2024-25 | ||||
| Tutor(s): | Cohort | September 2024 | |||||
| Tutor’s Email: | Mode: | Face to face | |||||
| Learning Outcomes: | |||||||
Onsuccessfulcompletionof themodulethestudentwillbeableto:
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| Scheduled learning and teaching: | |||||||
Lectures (incl. virtual and face-to-face contact): Seminars (incl. virtual and face-to-face contact): Guided Independent Study (GIS) Total | 15
30
105 150 | ||||||
| Assessment Summary: | |||||||
| Assessment Task | Key Dates | Learning Outcomes | |||||
| CW1 Report:2500 words (detailed assignment brief to follow) 100% weighting | Friday 10thJanuary 2025 (Week 13) 2pm UK time | 1,2,3,4 | |||||
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| Week by Week Guide: | Teaching Activity | ||||||
1. Week beginning: 23/09/2024 (Timetabling Week 1) | Welcome and Introductions Exploring and deconstructing ‘age’ | ||||||
2. Week beginning: 30/09/2024 (Timetabling Week 2) | Age, the life-course and intersecting social divisions – social issues around ageing in the 21st Century | ||||||
3. Week beginning: 07/10/2024 (Timetabling Week 3) | Well-being – what do we mean by well-being and ageing ‘well’? | ||||||
4: Week beginning: 14/10/2024 (Timetabling Week 4) | Children and wellbeing | ||||||
5: Week beginning: 21/10/2024 (Timetabling Week 5) | Children and wellbeing | ||||||
6. Week beginning: 28/10/2024 (Timetabling Week 6) | Youth and young people | ||||||
7. Week beginning: 04/11/2024
| Youth and young people | ||||||
8. Week beginning: 11/11/2024 (Timetabling Week 8) | Adulthood | ||||||
9. Week beginning: 18/11/2024 (Timetabling Week 9) | Older people | ||||||
10. Week beginning: 25/11/2024 (Timetabling Week 10) | Death and dying – a ‘good death’? | ||||||
11. Week beginning: 02/12/2024 (Timetabling Week 11) | Globalisation and ageing – cross-cultural understandings of ageing well (Assignment guidance) | ||||||
12. Week beginning: 09/12/2024 (Timetabling Week 12) | Theory in practice – case studies (Ageing and disability) | ||||||
CHRISTMAS VACATION Monday 16th December to Sunday 5th January 2025 | |||||||
13. Week beginning: 06/01/2025 (Timetabling Week 13) |
Assessment Submission deadline Friday 10th January 2025
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14. Week beginning: 13/01/2025 (Timetabling Week 14) | Employability Session | ||||||
15. Week beginning: 20/01/2025 (Timetabling Week 15) | Tutorials
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| Core Text(s): | |
Bradshaw, J. (2016), The Wellbeing of Children in the UK, Policy PressHiggs, P. and Gilleard, C. (2015), Rethinking Old Age: Theorising the Fourth Age,PalgraveWalker, A. (ed.) (2014), The New Science of Ageing, Bristol, Policy Press | |
| Additional Reading: | |
Barnes, M. Gahagan, B. & Ward, L. (2018) Re-imagining Old Age: Wellbeing, Care and Participation Delaware: Vernon Press Bowling, A. (2005) Ageing Well: Quality of Life in Old Age Maidenhead: Open University Press Katz, J., Peace, S. & Spurr, S. (Eds)(2012) Adult Lives: A Life Course Perspective Bristol: Policy Press Phillipson, C. (2013) Ageing Cambridge; Polity Press Pickard, S. (2016) Age Studies: A Sociological Examination of How We Age and Are Aged Through the Life Course London: Sage
Journal: Ageing and Society
Websites EU Active Ageing http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1062
Healthy Ageing across the Life Course http://www.halcyon.ac.uk/
UNICEF http://www.unicef.org.uk/
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