Resource approaches to health and wellbeing

Studiepoeng, omfang

10 ECTS

Studienivå (studiesyklus)

Master

Fulltid/deltid

Full-time

Undervisningssemester

Autumn

Mål og innhald

This course unit introduces and explores various approaches to the understanding of health and wellbeing, including the definition of health and the development of health. While including health definitions from the biomedical field, the course is grounded in the field of health promotion and has a main focus on positive, holistic and resource approaches to health.

The students will learn to critically appraise various approaches to health. Students will also learn to analyse consequences of various approaches to health in diverse contexts.

Læringsutbyte

On completion of this course the students should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge:

The student

• has advanced knowledge of various definitions of health and wellbeing in a diverse context.
• has in-depth knowledge of various theories and conceptual frameworks with a resource perspective, focussing on the development of health versus the prevention of disease.
• has thorough understanding of approaches to applying resource perspectives to health in practice.

Skills:

The student

• can contrast and critically appraise various approaches to health definition and health development
• can critically analyse the consequences of applying given health understandings to particular situations.
• can on a theoretical basis, choose a relevant approach to health for various situations met in practice.
• can analyse cases from a resource perspective.

General competence:

The student¿

• can coherently and critically communicate ideas concerning health and wellbeing.
• can analyse and apply theories of knowledge relevant for health and wellbeing as an academic field

Krav til forkunnskapar

None

Studiepoengsreduksjon

none

Krav til studierett

For students admitted to the master programmes at the Department of Health Promotion and Development.

International exchange students at the Faculty of Psychology may apply.

Undervisningsformer og omfang av organisert undervisning

The teaching will be a mix between lectures and seminars with a focus on student involvement in the activities.

Independent study is required, and the student will work on the term paper throughout the course. The student will be offered one optional supervision on the paper.

Obligatorisk undervisningsaktivitet

Annotation of three self-selected papers from the required reading list.

Vurderingsformer

Course paper of 3000 words +/-10% in which the student explores the relevance of the course content for a situation related to practice. The paper can be written in Norwegian or English.

Karakterskala

The grading scale used is A to F. Grade A is the highest passing grade in the grading scale, grade F is a fail.

Vurderingssemester

Autumn

Litteraturliste

The reading list will be available by 1st of December for the spring semester.

Emneevaluering

The course will be evaluated by students and faculty and evaluations will be openly available as is standard University of Bergen practice for quality assurance.

Programansvarleg

The Department of Health Promotion and Development

Emneansvarleg

Department of Health Promotion and Development

Administrativt ansvarleg

The Faculty of Psychology is responsible for the administration of the programme.