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Instructor Contact Information
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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
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Textbook and Course Material
Requirements
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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
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Hardware and Software Requirements
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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.
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Course Description
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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.
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Course Objectives
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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
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Course Specific Information
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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.
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Application and Registration
Information
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REGISTRATION DIRECTIONS:
- Complete
Online Application (for new SDCCD students). Go to Student Web Services
- Receive registration appointment and instructions by email or
mail.
- Register
online at the Reg-e, our online registration system
- Make sure
that you pay your tuition so that you don't lose your registration!
Tuition and Fees Information.
- 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)
- 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
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