EDEC 1600 - Introduction to Child Development

• Students will be able to explain primary terminology, concepts, and findings related to the growth and development of children and youth.
• Students will be able to apply the logic and methods of social or behavioral scientific inquiry to understanding human development.
• Students will be able to explain how understanding child development can contribute to becoming an informed citizen.
• Students will be able to describe ways that the fields of child development and their findings are influenced by the social identities of the investigators.
• Students will be able to critically state, describe, and consider an issue or problem related to the growth and development of children and youth.
• Students will be able to use information from child development source(s) with enough interpretation/evaluation to develop a comprehensive analysis or synthesis.
• Students will be able to systematically and methodically analyze assumptions and carefully evaluate the relevance of contexts when analyzing and discussing child development.
• Students will be able to state a specific position related to child development (i.e., perspective, thesis, or hypothesis) that is thoughtful, recognizes complexities, and acknowledges limitations.
• Students will be able to state conclusions and related outcomes about the development of infants, children and adolescents (consequences and implications) logically and in a priority order.
• Students will be able to describe sequences, stages, and milestones of growth within the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive domains of development.
• Students will be able to describe developmental domains are interrelated and provide examples of interrelationships among developmental domains.
• Students will be able to identify examples of and interpret multiple influences on development and learning.