Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Course

ACE ID:

DLSI-0012

Organization's ID:

DLSI-0012

Organization:

Distance Learning Systems Indiana, Inc

Location:

Online

Length:

9 weeks (144 hours)

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	Developmental Psychology

Description

Objective:

Students will learn the concepts, principles, theories and applications associated with the study of the life span, birth through death. Emphasis areas include genetics, prenatal development, childbirth, infancy, toddlerhood, early and middle childhood, adolescence, and early, middle and late adulthood, as well as death and dying. Overarching ideas throughout different time periods of the life span will be studied, and knowledge of how development during one period may affect later periods will be learned.

Learning Outcomes:

Recall and interpret the research methods in the study of and theoretical foundations for life span developmental psychology.
Identify basic concepts of genetics.
Compare, contrast, and categorize the cognitive, biosocial, and psychosocial development of the developing human through the life span.
Distinguish and identify issues encountered by the developing human through the life span.
Identify and apply the conception of death and dying across the life span and in different cultures, and the grieving process, rituals, and customs that accompany death and dying.
Recognize and apply the concepts related to the study of life span development.