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This course addresses the multifaceted complexities of human development, from birth through adulthood. The primary aim of the course is to foster the students’ ability to recognize and apply the connections among developmental domains and of theory and research with educational practice, including the use of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. This course will explore typical and atypical growth and development, including physical, cognitive and social-emotional development, from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood. An ecological systems approach will be taken to explain possible reasons for atypical and atypical developmental patterns. This course requires field experience hours.