Course

Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
OOSL-0107
Version:
1
Organization's ID:
PSY120
Organization:
StraighterLine
Location:
Online
Length:
14 weeks (75 hours)
Minimum Passing Score:
70
ACE Credit Recommendation Period:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 social sciences or health sciences
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide a general survey of human growth and development theory and science from biological, cognitive, and social perspectives. Each stage of the human life-cycle is considered against each lens and will provide students an important framework for which to consider their own and other's development from birth and infancy to adulthood and ultimately, death.

Learning Outcomes:

  • describe physical development across the lifespan
  • describe socioemotional development across the lifespan
  • identify prenatal and infant development; describe physical development across the lifespan
  • describe cognitive development across the lifespan
  • summarize death and dying experience and attitudes about death
  • apply concepts learned in course to life situations.

General Topics:

  • Life-span perspective
  • Beginnings
  • Infancy
  • Early childhood
  • Middle and late childhood
  • Adolescence
  • Early adulthood
  • Middle adulthood
  • Late adulthood
  • Death
  • Dying
  • Grieving
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Computer Based Training
  • Lectures

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Quizzes
Supplemental Materials
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