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Dec 13, 2024
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HDEV 311 - Infant and Child Development Units: 4 Development from conception to pre-adolescence viewed from various perspectives: biological, psychoanalytic, cognitive-structural, stimulus response, humanistic. Prenatal care and counseling, attachment-separation, parenting and institutional care.
Prerequisites: Junior, senior or post-baccalaureate standing. Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous. Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice). Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: - Explain key aspects of development that differentiate the prenatal period, infancy, preschool years, middle childhood, and preadolescence.
- Articulate how contextual factors (including culture and socio-economic status) can affect infant and child development.
- Identify the biological bases of physical development in infancy and childhood, including neurological development, motor development, and physical and mental health.
- Interpret infant and child behavior in terms of cognitive development, including perception, attention, memory, problem-solving, categorization, analogy, mental representations, mental operations, meta-cognition, social cognition, and language development.
- Describe important issues in social and emotional development during infancy and childhood, including peer relations, play, self-concept and identity (including gender and ethnicity), morality and social rules, prosocial and aggressive behavior, attachment relations, and emotion and self-regulation.
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