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Apr 19, 2024
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IECD-569 Individual Differences and Developmental Psychopathology4 semester credits
This course is designed for students to develop an understanding of individual differences in development. Individual differences in biological, psychological, cognitive, and cultural factors will be discussed so that students can understand how typical development helps us to understand atypical development and how atypical development helps us to understand typical development. The course provides guided independent learning, which involves extensive reading, writing assignments, online student discussions, sharing of one’s work with classmates, and responding to one another’s work.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
Students successfully completing this course will be able to:
- Gain an understanding of critical factors that affect developmental trajectories.
- Use class readings and discussions to assess and describe children whom they see in their individual professional practices.
- Gain an understanding of the research on specific individual differences by reviewing the literature on specific individual differences.
- Write scholarly Reviews of the Literature on an individual difference that they will share in their group discussions.
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