Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to explain the major developmental theories and scientific methods used to study development.
• Students completing an assignment in Area E courses will demonstrate meaningful self-evaluation related to increasing their lifelong personal well-being.
• Students will be able to discuss the impact of death in our Western culture, and how we deal with dying, death, loss and bereavement.
• Students will able to summarize the biophysical, cognitive, and psychosocial development of infants, toddlers, children, adolescents and adults, and factors that influence these developmental areas.
• Students will be able to explain conception, embryological and fetal development, and the birth process, as well as problems that may arise in any of these stages.
• Students will be able to describe cell division, and the principles of genetics, with special emphasis on their impact on human development.
• Students will be able to describe male and female sexual anatomy and physiology, including sex hormones and their actions.