Seminar in Personal and Academic Development

Code: PSI11089L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Psychology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Develops personal, academic and social skills that facilitate adaptation to the new demands placed upon entry to the university.

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

This curricular unit aims to develop students' personal and academic skills to help them adapt to the demands of higher education and learning in a university context, so that the following objectives can be achieved:
1) To know how to deal with the challenges that the university experience brings, as a space for developmental and academic transition.
2) To know the processes and strategies for self-regulating learning.
3) To understand the implications of the various ways of conceptualizing and approaching learning on the quality of the learning achieved.
4) Analyse and problematize their conceptions and approaches to learning.
5) Know and acquire cognitive, metacognitive, affective, motivational and behavioral strategies that facilitate learning and academic success.
6) To develop habits of research and critical reading of information.
7) Develop communication skills, a sense of agency and collaboration.

PART I
1. Integration at university - personal, social and academic factors.
2. Planning, organization and time management.
3. Emotions and feelings in learning experiences.
4. Emotional regulation in an academic context.

PART II

5. Conceptions and approaches to learning and their influence on the learning process.
6. Motivation and goal setting.
7. Cognitive and metacognitive study and learning strategies.
8. Self-regulation of the learning process.

Teaching Methods

Fundamentally, active and reflective methodologies are used, based on activities of a diverse nature, such as brainstorming, debates, practical application exercises, analysis of cases or texts, role-playing situations, videos, research, cooperative work and autonomous work. It draws on the students' lives and experiences to help them build the skills that will help them successfully tackle their academic career and access the future profession of psychologist. The activities combine theory and practice. An expository methodology is also used, using examples and debates to promote learning and understanding of relevant content. There is always a systematization of the content, which can occur after the exercises or before them, depending on the topic in question or the needs and interventions of the students. The topics have a practical component accompanied by the respective theoretical basis.

Assessment

CONTINUOUS EVALUATION: 75% attendance at classes is compulsory, unless special attendance arrangements apply. Students who do not meet the minimum number of lessons attended can only be assessed in the appeal period. Two individual assignments: Part I - Summary report covering each of the syllabuses (50%). Part II - Report covering each of the syllabuses (50%). Both pieces of work include research into the theoretical basis, implications for improving the student's learning and an overall reflection on the student's learning. FINAL ASSESSMENT: Completion of two individual assignments identical to those for continuous assessment. Assignement Part I (50%), Assignement Part II (50%).
In either case, a mark of less than 8 in one of the works will result in failure. Pass: minimum final mark of 10, if none of the exams has less than 8 marks.