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Child Development –
aed202
(3 credits)
AED 202 provides a context for understanding and addressing teaching and learning issues encountered in the classroom. Students are introduced to the major benchmarks of children’s social, emotional, cognitive, and language development, as well as the notion of multiple intelligences. As each of these topics is addressed, the instructional implications are also discussed.
This undergraduate-level course is 9 weeks.
This course may be available to
take individually or as part of a degree or certificate program.
To enroll, speak with an enrollment advisor.
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Cognitive Development
- Identify the stages of cognitive development in relation to physical maturation.
- Compare the theories of Piaget and Vygotsky.
- Discuss cognitive strategies and metacognitive awareness.
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Emotional Development
- Identify the stages of emotional development from birth through adolescence.
- Discuss trends in the development of the perception of self.
- Recognize the impact emotional disorders have on development.
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Foundations of Child Development
- Describe patterns and changes that occur in the three domains of development.
- Compare the basic issues of child development.
- Explain developmental periods in child development from birth through adolescence.
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Intellectual Development
- Relate the implications of
- Summarize the information processing theory as it relates to intellectual development.
- Compare the potential influences of heredity and environment on intelligence.
- Relate the implications of
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Interpersonal Development
- Describe development of interpersonal behaviors.
- Compare the holistic development of multiple age groups.
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Language Development
- Assess the factors influencing language development.
- Identify the components of language development.
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Physical Development
- Summarize stages of physical development from infancy through adolescence.
- Identify strategies that encourage a healthy lifestyle.
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Reading and Writing Development
- Relate reading development to phases of maturation.
- Identify strategies that promote effective reading and writing development.
- Associate development of writing skills to levels of maturation.
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Social Development
- Identify the stages of social development from birth through adolescence.
- Compare the relationship between social and emotional development as it applies to the classroom.
- Describe moral development from birth through adolescence.
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- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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