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The study of human development is a diverse interdisciplinary field that includes psychology, sociology, biology, and anthropology. Across these disciplines is the emerging dominant paradigm of developmental science. At its core, developmental science perspectives and theories of human development consider the complexity of individual, group, and species-level development as it unfolds across contexts and the lifespan. There are four overarching goals for this course: 1. The primary goal is to provide a general introduction to key theoretical concepts informing the study of human development and shaping the field of developmental science. 2. You will apply these concepts in order to understand some of the dominant modern theories of human development. 3. You will critically and meaningfully evaluate the theoretical and empirical work of others. 4. You will ground your own work, including research question selection, hypothesis development, and methodology in key theoretical perspectives or approaches to human development.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate