Human Development

Course Number:

PSY 215

Transcript Title:

Human Development

Created:

Aug 16, 2022

Updated:

Jul 17, 2023

Total Credits:

4

Lecture Hours:

40

Lecture / Lab Hours:

0

Lab Hours:

0

Satisfies Cultural Literacy requirement:

No

Satisfies General Education requirement:

Yes

Grading Options

A-F, P/NP, Audit

Default Grading Options

A-F

Repeats available for credit:

0

Alignment with Institutional Learning Outcomes

Major

1. Communicate effectively using appropriate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. (Communication)

Major

2. Creatively solve problems by using relevant methods of research, personal reflection, reasoning, and evaluation of information. (Critical thinking and Problem-Solving)

Not Addressed

3. Extract, interpret, evaluate, communicate, and apply quantitative information and methods to solve problems, evaluate claims, and support decisions in their academic, professional and private lives. (Quantitative Literacy)

Minor

4. Use an understanding of cultural differences to constructively address issues that arise in the workplace and community. (Cultural Awareness)

Minor

5. Recognize the consequences of human activity upon our social and natural world. (Community and Environmental Responsibility)

To establish an intentional learning environment, Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) require a clear definition of instructional strategies, evidence of recurrent instruction, and employment of several assessment modes.

Major Designation

1. The outcome is addressed recurrently in the curriculum, regularly enough to establish a thorough understanding.
2. Students can demonstrate and are assessed on a thorough understanding of the outcome.
   • The course includes at least one assignment that can be assessed by applying the appropriate CLO rubric.

Minor Designation

1. The outcome is addressed adequately in the curriculum, establishing fundamental understanding.
2. Students can demonstrate and are assessed on a fundamental understanding of the outcome.
   • The course includes at least one assignment that can be assessed by applying the appropriate CLO rubric.

Suggested Outcome Assessment Strategies

The determination of assessment strategies is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: writings (journals, self-reflections, pre writing exercises, essays), quizzes, tests, midterm and final exams, group projects, presentations (in person, videos, etc), self-assessments, experimentations, lab reports, peer critiques, responses (to texts, podcasts, videos, films, etc), student generated questions, Escape Room, interviews, and/or portfolios.

Department suggestions:

1. Individual or in-group class presentations pertaining to the applications of concepts, theories or issues in human development.
2. Design and complete a research project that can take the form of a developmental interview, an observation or assessment through service learning.
3. First hand observation of children of all ages in the classroom, at home, or at a daycare, to identify patterns of growth and development.
4. Interviews or observations of adolescents or adults to identify patterns of growth and development.
5. Develop and maintain a Reflection Journal.
6. Scores obtained from essay and or objective tests.
7. Attendance, classroom participation, small group interactions.
8. Research and write about relevant topics.

Course Activities and Design

The determination of teaching strategies used in the delivery of outcomes is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: lecture, small group/forum discussion, flipped classroom, dyads, oral presentation, role play, simulation scenarios, group projects, service learning projects, hands-on lab, peer review/workshops, cooperative learning (jigsaw, fishbowl), inquiry based instruction, differentiated instruction (learning centers), graphic organizers, etc.

Course Content

Outcome #1: Demonstrate an understanding by elaborating on how gender, ethnicity, class, historical period, and social location contribute to the developmental experience throughout the lifespan.

CC: Issues in human development:

• Nature versus Nurture issue in human development.
• Continuity versus Discontinuity in human development.
• Universal versus Context-specific development issue.

Outcome #2: Identify and explain key issues and concepts relevant to the understanding of how human behavior develops over the life span and be able to explain them to a layperson.

CC: Developmental Theories:

• Grand or Major Theories including psychodynamic theories, learning theories, and cognitive developmental theory.
• Emergent Theories including ecological, socio-cultural, and epigenetic theories.

Outcome #3: Provide examples from literature and current media that describe development — including dynamic interaction of biological, cognitive & psychosocial or social/emotional/cultural perspectives — as an ongoing set of processes, involving both continuity and change.

CC: Issues in human development:

• Nature versus Nurture issue in human development.
• Continuity versus Discontinuity in human development.
• Universal versus Context-specific development issue.

Outcome #4: Contrast and explain the key points of typical and atypical development across stages of the lifespan.

CC:  Development covered from a chronological, a topical or mixed approach to development including:

• Prenatal development and infancy
• Early childhood
• Middle childhood
• Adolescence
• Young adulthood
• Middle adulthood
• Late adulthood
• Death

Outcome #5: Demonstrate knowledge of the research and literature on central questions in the developmental process, including continuity, sources of development, and individual differences.

CC:  Research Methods in Human Development:

• Experimental
• Correlational

Suggested Texts and Materials

• Recommended: Lifespan Development, Lumen Learning (OER Text)
• Second Option: Rathus, S. A. (2013). HDEV 3. Belmont, CA,: Cengage Learning.