EDUC 2040 - Human Growth and Learning

4.5 Credits

Students examine human growth and learning from conception through adolescence. Students learn about current educational practices and how theories of development and learning impact and influence each other. Students participate in field-based learning opportunities.

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Recognize the academic range of learners and their abilities, and develop strategies that work with these varying levels.
Through field experience, students recognize patterns of learning and development across the domains and design appropriate learning experiences.
Identify the appropriate stages of human growth and development from infancy through middle childhood.
Collect authentic assessment information through observing and describing children and their interactions in the many diverse educational and social settings.
Explain the developmentally appropriate learning processes at the various levels of child development.
Describe behaviors and characteristics of developmentally appropriate learning as they pertain to infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.

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