Informal Feedback

1. What did you find particularly interesting or useful on this course? Why?

I found the structure of this course to be very satisfying and useful as it felt like a natural progression of learning that can be compared to all life stages 

2. What would you have liked to learn more about?

I would have liked to have learned more about Freud 

3. Was there anything that was not particularly interesting or useful? What was it?

Personally, the attachment theory module was very basic and could have been expanded more (I have learned extensively about this in the past and felt more could have been included)

4. Do you have any general comments about your experiences studying on the Introduction to Human Development course?

I would have liked to have learned more about indigenous perspectives on human development - community engagement, how different life stages are viewed, the inclusion of spirituality, rather than just models which we have already learned in Intro to Counselling

I found that working on a big group project was challenging, but it was also a valuable learning experience for me. I really appreciate the opportunity to be involved.  Due to my work commitment, I prefer to attend the evening online classes. 

1. Learning about the different stages of development was really useful, especially understanding how early experiences affect later life.

2. I would have liked more focus on Māori and Pasifika perspectives in human development.

3. Some theory-heavy readings were less engaging because they didn’t link clearly to real-life practice.

Overall, the course was helpful and gave me a clearer, more holistic understanding of human development.

1. Everything! Loved the assignments! It was all very interesting!!!!

2. In the attachment theory, there wasn't much on disorganised attachment. 

3. No!

4. Love, love, loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I liked most of it - I found it really useful to learn about the key life stages of human development - physically, cognitively and socially etc.  Plus I really enjoyed looking at different theories.  Overall given this is a 6 month course and an introduction course, I just found it all too brief and I found that frustrating and it really felt like it should be a year long course to spend significant time on each stage, theories and deeply understand how humans develop, how they may be affected and how it may impact them from a mental health point of view.  I know we will get more involved in this through the rest of the degree and I realise it is just an introduction course.  I found the online class time of 7-8pm to be hard for me to join, I would rather it be during the day.  I do think there should be a weekly class.  I also found some of the content to be out of date or muddled up, for example it would say there are 2 videos to watch on the next page - and then there weren't any videos on the next page.

To be brutally honest, I felt like we as students were left to figure this course out on our own. There wasn’t much guidance or support, and while I understand why that might have been, MIT could definitely have done better to address it. Despite that, the course itself was fun and informative, even if it felt a bit disorganised. Overall, I think I did pretty well considering the circumstances. I especially enjoyed the sections on the later stages of life and end-of-life care, since I’m both experiencing that phase myself and helping support our aging parents.

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Although at first I wasn't sure about the assessments but I actually really enjoyed them. I love the creative aspect of not just HD but of the course as a whole so far. Within this paper, I have really enjoyed the more philosophical discussions, especially around later life, death and dying.

I enjoyed this course as with my nursing background, I love the physical or biological sides of the human body so  I resonated with this development side. I also found the attachment theory, and really all of the introduced theories interesting. 

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