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Aug 01, 2025
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IECD-520 Human Development4 semester credits
This course introduces students to an inter-professional, culturally informed, theoretically integrated framework to understand infant and early childhood development through the lens of infant mental health (ages prenatal to 8 years), social emotional, and neurodevelopment. It provides students with an overview of the factors that affect and shape the human brain, mind, body, and behavior, including parent-child relationships, and environmental variables. It also explores those factors that potentially impact typical development. The course incorporates an understanding of practical applications for promoting healthy child development and working with diverse caregivers and families. It combines lectures, reading materials, group discussions, videotaped examples, and related assignments to achieve its learning objectives.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
- Utilize an inter-professional, culturally-informed perspective of infant and early childhood mental health and human development overall
- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of early relationships on neurodevelopment, the brain, mental health, including the bi-directional effect on the parent and child, and general functioning
- Recognize the range of factors that underlie healthy development and why prenatal to 8 years of age is a critical time period for human development
- Demonstrate an understanding of the factors that can adversely impact the infant, child, and family, overall development, mental health and neuro- and brain development
- Apply an understanding of the importance of mental health and social emotional development to healthy cognitive, academic, and general social functioning
- Demonstrate how culture and environments impact brain development, mental health and work with infants, children, and families
- Integrate and reflect on the aforementioned as demonstrated through written work, verbal course discussions, and presentations
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