CDEV 107 Syllabus

Course Syllabus: Spring2019.CDEV.107SEC. 63696.8.35AMM_WED2.11.19.docx

Meet Your Instructor: Professor Chantal Lamourelle, M.S. 

Course Description:  This course examines the major physical, psycho social, and cognitive/language developmental milestones for children, from conception through adolescence. Using developmental theories & research methodologies, course emphasis will be on typical and atypical development, maturation processes & environmental factors.  Students will also observe children, evaluate individual differences and analyze characteristics of development at various stages.

The course is divided into five (5) major sections:

• Introduction to Development

• Conception to Toddlers (birth to 2 years old)
• Preschoolers (2 to 7 years old)
• Middle Childhood (7 to 11 years old)

Adolescence (11 to 17 years old)

Textbook Information: Gabriella Martorell, Child from Birth through Adolescence (1^st Ed.)