COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN LIFESPAN

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KPD 5039 CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN LIFESPAN ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DIĞDEM MÜGE SIYEZ

Offered to

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Course Objective

This course aims to provide an understanding of the approaches and helping services related to lifespan career development and to develop application skills.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Know career development tasks specific to different age periods
2   2. Know career interventions to be applied in different education stages.
3   3. Know career interventions to be applied in industrial institutions
4   4. Know theories and models of career development,
5   5. Take into account ethical and cultural strategies related to career development
6   6. Use valid and reliable instruments for evaluating career development

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic concepts in life-span career development
2 Categorizations of life-span development
3 Career development and career development theories
4 Career stages
5 Career development in childhood
6 Career development in adolescence
7 Career development in emerging adulthood
8 Career development in adulthood
9 Career development in people with special needs.
10 Career development in gifted people
11 Developing, practising and evaluating of career development programs
12 Career Interventions in childhood
13 Career interventions in adolescence
14 Career interventions in emerging adulthood and adulthood
15 Assessment in career counseling

Recomended or Required Reading

Niles, S. G. Ve Harris-Bowlbey, J. (2013). 21. Yüzyılda kariyer gelişimi müdahaleleri. (Career Development Interventions In The 21st Century, 4. B.), Fidan Korkut Owen (Çev. Ed.), Ankara: Nobel
Sampson, J. P., Reardon, R. C., Peterson, G. W., Lenz, J. G. (2004). Career conseling & services. Canada: Thomson & Brooks/Cole
Zunker, V. G. (2002). Career counseling: Applied concepts of life planning. 6th ed. Canada: Thomson & Brooks/Cole

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Reading, exercises in the classroom, Completion of career-oriented assessment instruments, Written assignments, Participation in class and small group discussions/activities

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE Midterm Exam
2 DTK Other Activity
3 FN Semester final exam
4 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.30 + Student examDTK * 0.10 + FN * 0.60
5 BUT Make- up note
6 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.30 +Student examDTK * 0.10 + BUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 10 2 20
Tutorials 3 2 6
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 1 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 4 10 40
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 103

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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