HUMAN DEVELOPMENT II: ADOLESCENCE AND ADULTHOOD

Paper Code: 
25CHSC313
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to –

  1. Understand all-round developmental changes and impact during adolescence
  2. Remember the problems of similar age groups
  3. Analyze the sexuality issues
  4. Compare the developmental changes during adulthood
  5. Understand the hazards of adolescence and adulthood

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course

Title

25CHSC 313

 

Human Development II: Adolescence and Adulthood

(Theory)

CO77:Enhance the understanding of adolescence by examining developmental domains, issues like eating disorders, personality development, media impact, family dynamics, and social constructs.

CO78:Examine sex education for teenagers, focusing on problems, methods of family planning, risk factors, language, morality, and emotional relationships.

CO79:Evaluate the developmental tasks, characteristics, changes, and challenges faced by young adults, including changing interests, adjustments, and responsibilities.

CO80:Summarize the characteristics, adjustments, coping with midlife crisis and stress in family and workplace during middle adulthood.

CO81:Assess knowledge about tasks, characteristics, and issues of old age, including changes, problems, retirement, successful aging, and provisions/policies for late adulthood.

CO82: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Presentation,

Learning activities for the students:

Field activities, Presentation, Giving tasks

Class tests, Semester end examinations, quizzes, Presentation.

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to Adolescence (13-19yrs)
  • Definition, Characteristics, and developmental tasks
  • Physical development- growth spurt, physical transition, primary and secondary sex characteristics, sexual maturity, Nutrition and health
  • Thinking process- (Piaget formal operation)
  • Problems –physiological, psychological, academic, social
  • Eating disorders-anorexia and bulimia and their prevention
  •  Personality – self-identity, identity statuses and body image
  • Family and peer relationships
  • Adolescent and media
  • Social construction of adolescence

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Sexuality Issues
  • Sex education-meaning, importance and methods                                                          
  • Methods of family planning-meaning, importance, types
  • Problems in adolescents- masturbation, heterosexuality, homosexuality (sexual Orientation), Sadism
  • Risk factors- suicide, AIDS, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency and substance abuse
  •  Emotional maturity, family relationship and causes of friction
  • Adolescent language and morality

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Young Adulthood (20-40 yrs)
  • Developmental tasks, characteristics     
  • Physical and Cognitive development
  • Psychosocial development-self-identity, marriage, family and parenthood
  • Responsibilities, changing trends and challenges for adults
  • Changing interest and adjustment in early adulthood

 

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Middle Adulthood (41-60 yrs)
  • Characteristics, adjustment to physical changes (appearance, sensory ability,
  • physical functioning, health, sex), mental abilities, interests, social 
  • emotional adjustments and occupational adjustments.
  • Coping with midlife crisis, marital satisfaction, gender differences, relations with friends and relatives.
  • Coping with stress in family and workplace.
  • Menopause, andropause, health issues.
  • Preparation for retirement
  • Grand parenting- advantages and disadvantages.

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Late Adulthood and Ageing (above 60 yrs.)
  • Developmental task and characteristics
  • Physical, sensory, attitudinal, interests, motor functioning
  • Cognitive changes
  • Retirement – effect on self concept, attitude of family and society
  • Problems of old age- ageing, financial, problems faced, loneliness,
  • prolonged illness, changing relationships.
  • Successful ageing
  • Provisions and policies for aging adults

 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Santrock, W. John (2007). Life Span Development, Sixth Edition, McGraw Hill, New York
  2. Berk, L. (2006). Child development, Allyn and Bacon, New York
  3. Hurlock E.B. (1978). Child development, Megraw Hill Publishing Co.

 

References: 
  1. Rice, F. (1992). Human Development. A Life Span Approach Prentice, Hall
  2. John Brond, Peter Coleman and Sheila Peace Aging in Society: An Introduction to Social Gerontology, 2nd edition (1993) Sage Publications, New Delhi.
  3. K. Warner Schaie and Sherry 1. Willis, Adult Development and Aging 3rd edition (1991) Harper – Collins Publishers, U.S.A.
  4. Selin,H.(2014).Parentingacrosscultures:Childrearing,motherhoodandfatherhoodinnon-westerncultures.Springer, Dordrecht.
  5. Lamb, S.E.(Ed.). (2012). Agingand the Indian diaspora: Cosmopolitan
    1. families inIndiaandabroad.OrientBlackswanPrivateLtd.
  6. Kapadia, S. (2017). Adolescence in urban India: Cultural construction in a society in transition.  New Delhi: Springer.
  7. Brown, B. B., & Larson, R. W. (Eds.). (2002). The world's youth: Adolescence in eight regions of the globe. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613814

 

e-Resources:

  1. https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/23325/1/Unit-1.pdf
  2. https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/23356/1/Unit-2.pdf

 

Reference Journals:

  1. Journal of Adolescence, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-adolescence
  2. Journal of Adult Development, https://www.springer.com/journal/10804

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2025-2026
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