Human Development (classroom, Synchronous & Asynchronous E-Learning)

This course introduces human development content to students without prior background in the field of special education. As this is a postgraduate masters course, it will also expect greater independence of learning, having students draw on skills and knowledge to carry out basic special education research.

This course will provide opportunities to further examine and discuss the following research-related topics:

• Introduction to human development
• General theories in human development
• Issues on birth rights
• Infancy and toddlerhood
• Early childhood
• Middle childhood
• Disability and childhood
• Adolescence
• Youth and disability
• Adulthood
• Disability and sociology

What You'll Learn

On completion of this course, students should be able to:

a) Become familiar with the key ideas and concepts in various human development and learning theories

b) Respect sociological definitions of disability through a disability studies perspective

c) Describe the impact of biological, psychological, social, and environmental challenges on human development.

d) Critically analyze explanations for developmental issues and the effects of individual, family, community, and social responses

e) Assess the way in which impairments at earlier developmental stages impact development at later developmental stages