Instructor Contact Information

 

Human Growth & Development
Fully Online
(Note:  Fully Online = no oncampus meetings or exams)

Belinda Hammond
Instructor
San Diego City College

1313 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92101-4787
805/637-1039
belinda_hammond@verizon.net

 

 

Textbook and Course Material Requirements

 

Insert Textbook information – The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence, 8th edition, Kathleen Stassen Berger, Worth Publishing, ISBN 1-4292-1647-6
Describe any access code information


Purchase Textbooks Online at the SDCCD Online Bookstore

 

Hardware and Software Requirements

 

Hardware and Software:
To successfully complete this online course, you will be required to meet the minimum hardware and software requirements. View Hardware and Software Requirements.

Internet Browser:
You must use a supported Internet browser in order to successfully work in WebCT, the online course management system for this course. To see a list of supported Internet browsers, click here.

 

Course Description

 

This course is intended to examine the developmental years from birth to early adolescence. Social, intellectual and physical growth are studied from relevant theoretical positions.

 

Course Objectives

 

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify developmental principles which explain growth patterns and stages of development from conception through adolescence
  • Indicate factors which influence desirable conditions for development
  • Explain child development theories in areas of physical, cognitive and psychosocial development
  • Describe measures which will promote development of children and adolescents
  • Classify the stages of development and name the characteristics of each; and
  • Formulate generalizations about the development of individual children

Course Specific Information

 

This is a 16 week course offered in 4 weeks, so it does go quickly!  Also note that if you have already completed CHIL 103, this class meets the same requirement for degrees and permits.

 

 

 

Application and Registration Information

 

REGISTRATION DIRECTIONS:

  1. Complete Online Application (for new SDCCD students). Go to Student Web Services
  2. Receive registration appointment and instructions by email or mail.
  3. Register online at the Reg-e, our online registration system
  4. Make sure that you pay your tuition so that you don't lose your registration!
    Tuition and Fees Information.
  5. Order textbooks online. Visit our online bookstore.

6.  After completion of registration on Reg-e, and several days prior to the start of the semester, you will receive an email with course login instructions. If you don't receive an email please go to http://www.sdccdonline.net and login on the first day of class as follows:
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Type your WebCT ID = 7-digit College Student Identification (CSID) number
Type your Password =  mmddyyyy (birthdate with no hyphens, slashes, or spaces)
For example:  1010101 (CSID number used at registration)
                          06231980 (password for birthdate June 23, 1980) 

  1.  If this course is closed, please login to Reg-e to be placed on a waitlist. If the waitlist is full, you will not be able to add your name to the waitlist.

You will not be able to login to your online course until the first day of the semester!!!
You must login to your online course on the first day of the session to avoid your enrollment being dropped. Follow the login instructions at
http://www.sdccdonline.net/login