Human Behavior and the Social Environment II

Catalog description

This course will prepare students to understand human development across the life span with consideration given to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age and social class as they pertain to development. Students will learn about pre-pregnancy and prenatal issues, and development in infancy and early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. Students will examine the life stages as social, historical, and cultural constructs in addition to addressing micro level processes that shape these age periods.