EDUC102-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016

Child and Adolescent Development

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 22 May 2016

Description

This course establishes a foundation in theory, concepts, processes and factual knowledge of infant, child, and adolescent development within the context of family, school, and community. Students will acquire an understanding of the developmental processes that take place within and across physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains, and their associations with developmental outcomes.

How do infants develop into children and how do children develop into adolescents? How does the combination of genetic/biological and environmental influences shape our developmental outcomes? Are early risk factors always detrimental for child outcomes? How does our social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development overlap?

These are just a few of the interesting questions that will be addressed in EDUC102: Child and Adolescent Development. Through lectures and a video-based tutorial program using BBC’s Child of our Time programme, we will connect research and theory to reality as we explore the processes of how children and adolescents develop.

Learning Outcomes

1. Students will be able to describe the principal ideas of a developmental approach to understanding infants, children and adolescents.
2. Students will be able to describe the pathways of cognitive, social, emotional and physical development.
3. Students will be able to outline the process of language development from infancy.
4. Students will be able to describe the principal ideas of a range of developmental theories.
5. Students will be able to discuss the impact of health and health- related issues on infant, child and adolescent development.

Restrictions

TEDU110, EDUC121, TEDU150, TEDU102

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Myron Friesen

Lecturers

Anne van Bysterveldt , Susan Besley and Valerie Sotardi

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
4 Tutorial assignments 10% various dates
Mid-Semester Test 07 Apr 2016 35%
Final Examination 55% *To be held during the official UC Mid-Year Examination period (end of Semester 1). Check the UC examination timetable for date, time and room venue. Keep up to date through this link: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/exams/ (generally the first week of the exam period around 14/6 or 15/6)


Please note an exam for this course will be held on 14 June 2016.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Santrock, John W; Child development ; Fourteenth edition;

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $717.00

International fee $2,913.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Educational Studies and Leadership .

All EDUC102 Occurrences

  • EDUC102-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016
  • EDUC102-16S1 (D) Semester One 2016 (Distance)
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