PSY 5322 Lifespan Development
This course will critically examine contemporary understandings of psychological development as physical, cognitive, and social development and endeavor to place human development within the context of human possibility. It seeks to provide the student with a foundation in primary and secondary source material that presents human development in terms of the questions: what is development? What about us ‘develops’? Is this development continuous or discontinuous? What about us remains the same throughout life and what changes? What is the meaning of our deaths in the context of our development? It seeks to strike a balance between in-depth treatment of various “stages” and a broad-based lifespan approach.