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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.

College/Department: School of Education
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

Provides supervised field experience at a cooperating school designed to develop skills in instructional planning, pedagogy, motivation, classroom management and discipline, interrelationships among diverse populations within school settings, identification of instructional resources, and applications of current research on effective teaching. This course has a Stage 4 field component, successful completion of the field component is required for recommendation for certification. See SoE Field Placement Office website for all clearance policy and field experience requirements.

College/Department: School of Education
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: EDUC 520 [Min Grade: B]