COURSE NAME: Human Development

SCHOOL DISTRICT: Warrensburg

INSTRUCTOR: Sally Taibe

Half Year

COURSE PREREQUISITES:  

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION / OUTLINE: BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION / OUTLINE:

Today's students live in a rapidly changing world. Human Development/Lifespan Studies focuses on skills
needed for understanding changing relationships across the lifecycle. Content Topics include Current Issues
and Events in Human Development/Lifespan Studies with regard to growth and development of the Brain,
Prenatal Period, Childhood, Adolescence, Adult, and Elder Years. Strategies for understanding self, as well as
for dealing with change, help students manage the challenges of living in today's world.

Students armed with these coping strategies are more likely to be involved in positive relationships in their
family, school, community and workplace. Adolescents are future family, and community and career leaders.
As citizens of tomorrow, they need to be able to synthesize information, utilize prior knowledge, work
cooperatively, and apply critical thinking skills as they progress along their divergent paths.

This Human Development/Lifespan Studies Core course allows students to meet commencement level New
York State Learning Standards for Family and Consumer Sciences as well as Career Development and
Occupational Studies. This course is also aligned the National Family and Consumer Sciences Standards.

Human Development/Lifespan Studies may be used to meet the New York State parenting education graduation requirement for any student. Attendance at one field trip may be a requirement of this course.

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