Bachelor
2023/2024
Research Seminar "Health, Well-Being and Human Behavior"
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (Sociology and Social Informatics)
Area of studies:
Sociology
Delivered by:
Department of Sociology
When:
2 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Contact hours:
42
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Students will be immersed in the world of social research on health behavior and well-being during the course. We will discuss risks and protective factors, prevention programs, and much other stuff related to children, teenagers, and adults’ health behavior and well-being. Students will become familiar with theories of social behavior and would be able to view research ideas through their lens.
Learning Objectives
- To provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to detect and describe the social mechanisms of health behavior and well-being.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- be able to conduct studies and present its results in the form of oral presentation with visual material.
- be able to juxtaposition theoretical concepts to the analysis of health and well-being behavior.
Course Contents
- Introduction. Health behavior theories.
- Health communication and promotion: sources and providers
- Confidence crisis to medicine.
- Methods and techniques in health communication
- Apps for health and well-being control.
- Health is our resource.
- Childhood in poverty: development, well-being, and health.
- The downside of preventive measures.
- Teenagers: health vs. risks
- Presentation and discussion of students individual research projects
Assessment Elements
- In-class assignmentsThe grade will be calculated as an average score for all types of written activities during the seminars.
- Presentation of student's thesisIt includes an oral presentation with visual materials of the parts of the student's research - research framework, literature review, data description, and preliminary analysis.
- Participation in class discussions
- Final exam
