Nov 21, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Academic Catalog 2024-2025
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HOD-811 Advanced Human Development

4 semester credits
This seminar explores theories and research in Human Development and consciousness across the life span which can include: prenatal development, birth, infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, maturity, old age, and death. Some of the key questions for this advanced seminar address: What are the roles of culture, genetics, and wisdom in Human Development? How do learning and contexts affect individuals and groups? How might we conceptualize “Becoming Human”? What roles do organizations and social interaction play in Human Development? These questions could be considered at many points in the lifespan, in terms of changing family/social structures; or as a process over a certain period of time.
Pre-requisites: HOD-804  
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):  

  • Critically analyze and construct scholarly arguments relevant to advanced human development theories.
  • Write a scholarly paper on an advanced human development topic
  • Demonstrate understanding of ways to apply human development theory and research to professional and personal practice.



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