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:
Critically analyse the importance of the different stages of the life-course to the concept of ageing well
Critically analyse issues which impact on ageing well, including inequality, culture and lifestyle choice
Critically analyse the politicisation of ageing through the life course and the role of global, national and local policy in providing the context to ageing and ageing well
Critically examine the significance of the social construction of community and social capital to experiences of ageing and ageing well through the life course
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
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
14. Week beginning:
13/01/2025
(Timetabling Week 14)
Employability Session
15. Week beginning:
20/01/2025
(Timetabling Week 15)
Tutorials
Core Text(s):
Bradshaw, J. (2016), The Wellbeing of Children in the UK, Policy Press
Higgs, P. and Gilleard, C. (2015), Rethinking Old Age: Theorising the Fourth Age,Palgrave
Walker, 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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