Child Development
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Child Development (ECE/PSY 234)
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Child Development at Yavapai College
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ECE/PSY 234, Child Development
Course Description: Exploration of children’s development from conception through adolescence, assuming a transactional approach to understanding development focusing on family relationships, brain development, and social-emotional development. Risk and protective factors are analyzed with respect to the interplay of attachment, brain development, and social-emotional development. Developmental periods include prenatal, infancy, toddlerhood, preschool years, middle childhood, and adolescence with an examination of biological influences, cognition, behavioral characteristics, social interaction, and cultural resources typified at each developmental period.
Additional Information: 3 credit hours. Reading proficiency prerequisite. This course fulfills 3 credits of the Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) requirement of the AGEC.
Required Text: Understanding the Whole Child: Prenatal Development through Adolescence, Paris, et. al (2022).
Course Content
- Genetics, prenatal, and birth
- Physical development through adolescence
- Cognitive development through adolescence
- Language development through adolescence
- Emotional development through adolescence
- Social development through adolescence
- Cultural influences on child development
Course Objectives/Learning Outcomes
- Summarize research methods applied to various theoretical perspectives of child development.
- Describe major developmental themes (e.g. nature-nurture, stability and change, early-late experiences, and continuity - discontinuity) as applied to child development theories.
- Evaluate various theories of child development.
- Delineate genetic and prenatal influences on child development.
- Analyze the interplay of physical, cognitive, emotional and social development.
- Identify the probable effects of parents, family, peers, teachers, and community on child development.
- Conduct research on topics related to child development.
- Discuss the cultural influences on child development.
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