PSY 5130 HUMAN DEV. ACROSS LIFE SPAN
A life-span approach to the major theoretical perspectives, conceptual debates and methodological concerns in developmental psychology. Description and explanation of the degree to which personality, cognitive abilities, and socio-emotional competencies show stability/change with age. Includes the life cycle of the family and changes of family and changes of family structures over time, as well as issues of ethnicity, gender and culture.