Equivalency Details

This course is a survey of development and growth from conception through adolescence. The physical, emotional, intellectual, and social processes of maturation are examined. Emphasis is on the adjustment of the individual to his or her peer group, social institutions, the community, and the home.

This course combines specific areas of human development, for example, physical, cognitive, emotional and social development and specific developmental time periods: prenatal, infant, toddler, young childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood and older adulthood. Multiple developmental theories plus biological and ecological influence in each period demonstrate how the individual and the individual's world interact in human development. The history of the study of human development and research methodologies specific to human development are included.