VERB1300 Anatomy and Physiology Course description

Knowledge of basic human needs, anatomy, physiology and motor skill development is crucial to health professionals. This course also covers cytology, microbiology, genetics and neuroanatomy.

Social educators need basic skills in observing and talking to children and young people to understand their life and how work with children can be carried out in interprofessional person- and family-centred care. This topic is highlighted in the interdisciplinary teaching activity INTER1100 The Same Child – Different Arenas, 1.5 credits. INTER1100 addresses the learning outcomes marked with an asterisk (*) and written in italics.

The course is taught over a total of seven weeks, including Interact.

The student must have been admitted to the programme.

On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge, skills and general competence:

KnowledgeThe student

• can describe the structure and function of the body
• can explain basic human needs
• can describe the most important principles of hygiene
• can present important aspects of microbiology
• can describe the structure and functioning of the cell
• can describe the structure and physiology of different organ systems with a particular focus on neurology
• can describe normal motor skill development and factors that can affect this development
• can describe normal sensory development and functioning, and factors that can affect this development
• has a general understanding of childhood and of the processes associated with growing up in a society characterised by social and cultural diversity*

SkillsThe student

• can explore girls' and boys' everyday life and their subjective understanding of it*

General competenceThe student

• has an emerging understanding of interprofessional cooperation with children, young people and their families*

Teaching and learning methods include lectures, group work, written assignments, a multiple-choice test and self-study.

Two seminar days, digital learning resources and conversation and observation assignments related to interprofessional group work and self-study are part of INTER1100 The Same Child – Different Arenas.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• Group work in groups of six students with:

• • submission of written assignments totalling up to 2,000 words

• • minimum attendance of 80%

• Two multiple-choice tests with a minimum of 80% correct answers by the given deadline

• required coursework as described under INTER 1100 https://interact.hioa.no/emnebeskrivelse-inter1100/

Individual written examination with invigilation, multiple-choice test, 4

None

Grade scale A–F

An external programme supervisor contributes to the preparation of the question papers and assessment criteria. Each answer paper is quality assured by an internal examiner and automatically assessed.

8.5 credits overlap with VERN1500/VERND1500/VERNL1500, INTER1100 missing (to be clarified)