PSY 121 - Developmental Psychology

Credit(s) 3.00
Lecture Hours: 3.00
This course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the process and interrelationship of physical, emotional, intellectual, and social evolution in the individual. Attention is given to these human potentials throughout the life-cycle from conception to death.

SLOs:
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Demonstrate an understanding of social science methods used in analyzing social phenomena in the diversity of human perspectives.
Demonstrate an understanding of human development throughout an individual's lifespan.
Demonstrate an understanding of fundamental interrelationships between an individual's physical, cognitive and psychosocial development during the following periods of the lifespan: prenatal, infancy and toddlerhood, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood.
Demonstrate a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach with an emphasis toward students who are pursuing objectives in education, medical arts, human services, and parenting.
Describe the life span as an ongoing developmental process involving both continuity and change, including the aspects of physical, cognitive and psychosocial development.
Identify different developmental events from the perspective of the major theories of development: evolutionary, learning/behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, sociocultural/contextual, humanistic.
Analyze human development issues with a cross-cultural approach, recognizing the similarities and differences between various cultural perspectives.

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