Human Development

Catalog description

This course provides a holistic introduction to human development across the lifespan and considers different theoretical approaches and research methods used to study development. The course examines developmental processes using social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and sexual lenses from conception through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, later life and death. The course offers information designed to support healthy human development using an interdisciplinary approach based on science and applied toward important human problems. Prerequisite: None.