CDEV 3140 - Human Development I: Childhood

3 unit(s)

(Offered under the subjects PSYC and CDEV) Basic principles of human development as they apply to infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Discussion of current developmental research and applications.

Satisfies G.E. area UD-4.

Course Learning Outcomes List
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

Describe the continuity of growth and the relationship of prenatal, neonatal, infancy, childhood and adolescent issues to patterns of growth throughout the lifespan;
Identify major developmental changes within physical-motor, perceptual-cognitive, and psychosocial domains of development from conception through adolescence;
Discuss the complexity of biological and environmental factors that influence development;
Explain major contextual impacts on human development;
Describe major research methodologies utilized to pursue developmental research;
Describe major theories of development and how they diversely explain developmental phenomena;
synthesize and apply developmental principles, theories, and research to course assignments; and
Describe personal and professional implications of developmental principles, theories and research.

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