Course Details

This course examines child growth and development. Children arrive with many skills and grow up in a complex sphere of social and economic circumstances and challenges. This course presents you with the latest research and thinking to help you better appreciate the complex interactions that characterize human development in infancy and childhood. While giving attention to articles that discuss effective, practical applications, it also explores and emphasizes important contemporary issues and challenges, including topics such as development in the context of cultural and societal influences and the influence of media and technology on learning. This course investigates cognitive, affective, and personality development in infancy and childhood from a multicultural and ecological perspective. Students will have opportunities to consider applications of theories to their social and occupational contexts.

This course is applicable towards the following certificate(s):
*Health and Human Development

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