| Course ID: | EPSY 3010S. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Child and Adolescent Development for Education |
Course
Description: | Cognitive, sociocultural, emotional, and moral development from
infancy through adolescence, with particular emphasis placed on
developmental issues in the context of service-learning in an
educational setting. |
| Oasis Title: | Child and Adolescent Develop |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in EPSY 3010, EPSY 3010H |
| Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester
that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course
or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course
objectives.
Students will be involved in the planning and implementation
of the project(s) and may spend time outside of the classroom.
Students will be engaged in the service-learning component for
approximately 25-50% of overall instructional time. |
| Prerequisite: | Any course with EPSY, PSYC, ECHD, or CHFD prefix |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Through academic course materials, service within community
educational settings,
and reflecting on the connections between these, students will
learn:
• current theories and research in child and adolescent
development;
• how child/adolescent development theories and research
can be used to improve service to children/adolescents in
educational settings;
• how to identify developmental patterns in individual
children/adolescents whom they are serving in educational
settings;
• implications of child/adolescent developmental research
and theories for both teaching of children/adolescents and the
design of educational
programs, policies, and settings.
Students are required to evaluate their own practice with
children/adolescents for
use of proven strategies for learning. Course assessment is
based on this self-
evaluation, students' ability to identify course concepts in
their service-learning
contexts, and evidence of progress in the learning of the
children/adolescents
served. |
| Topical Outline: | NOTE: All topics are related through course discussions and
student writing to
specific exemplars and applications in the service-learning
context.
Piagetian Theory
Vygotskian Theory
Development of the Brain
Development of Attention and Working Memory
Development of Long Term memory and its Organization
Metacognition and Self-regulated Learning
Language Development
Process and Effects of Attachment
The Family: parenting, family variation and change, cultural
variations
Effects of poverty on learning and development
Responsibilities of adults to all children in a modern society
Moral Development
Peers and Friendships
Developing a Concept of Self - Birth through Adolescence
Ethnic and Gender Identity Development |