Instructor Contact Information

 

Lifespan Development
Fully Online
(Note:  Fully Online = no oncampus meetings or exams)

Belinda Hammond
Instructor
Miramar College

10440
Black Mountain Road, San Diego, CA 92126-2999
805/637-1039
belinda_hammond@verizon.net

 

 

Textbook and Course Material Requirements

 

Textbook information – The Developing Person Through the Life Span, 7th edition, Kathleen Stassen Berger, Worth Publishing, ISBN 0-7167-6072-X


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 provides students and child development professionals with the study of human development from conception to death. This course emphasizes theories of human development, including the physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive stages from prenatal through adulthood and aging. Students explore the interrelationship of the family's role and its influences throughout life. They also perform behavioral observations of various life stages.

 

Course Objectives

 

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

  • Explain and define the interrelationship of lifespan and human development through the physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive domains
  • Apply the principles and tools necessary to conduct developmental research using the scientific method; identify the rights of research participants
  • Evaluate developmental theories and issues through the perspectives of nature vs. nurture, activity and passivity, continuity and discontinuity, and universality and context specificity
  • List the genetic and environmental conditions that affect and influence human development; describe the effects of these conditions to prenatal, neonatal, and perinatal environments
  • Examine the different stages of human development from infancy through adulthood and explain the physical, cognitive, and psychological changes that occur at each stage
  • Differentiate theoretical perspectives on the development of social relationships for infants, children, adolescents, and adults
  • Analyze the family’s role as a changing system in an evolving and culturally diverse world
  • Evaluate developmental psychopathology and issues, such as autism, depression, attention deficit disorder (ADD), stress, aging, and dementia

Apply theories of aging and life and death issues to infants, children, adolescents, and adults

Course Specific Information

 

This is a 16 week course offered in 8 weeks, so it does go quickly!  Also note that if you have already completed CHIL 101, 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