Social, Emotional, and Personality Development

Catalog description

The story of human development across the lifespan, with an emphasis on how people acquire the capacities for mutually beneficial social relations, positive motivation, and mature self-understanding. Topics include socialization, identity, purpose, moral commitment, anti-social behavior, SEL (social and emotional learning in schools), gender, culture, self-concept, and personality. This course is a DAPS core course open to other doctoral and master's students and to advanced undergraduates with some prior coursework in human development.