Human Development and Family Services

Students will explore a Systems Perspective with a focus on understanding socialization of children from an ecological perspective with an emphasis on developing positive linkage between early childhood settings and families. Prerequisite: Must have completed HDFS 201.

Individual development, roles, and interrelationships within the family system through the lifespan.

Study the dynamics of development, interaction, and intimacy for primary relationships in contextual and theoretical frameworks. Review societal issues and choices facing diverse family systems and individuals living within families.

The course considers the development of young children from the prenatal period through age eight, focusing in particular on diversity among children. Diversity will be explored in the terms of cultural, ethnic, and linguistic variations as well as differences in ability and typical and atypical development.

This course will focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of planning and implementing a curriculum for preschool-aged children, including activities that promote creative, physical, cognitive, language and social-emotional development. Prerequisite: Must have completed ECE 210 and ECE 200 and ECE 251 and ECE 453 and ECE 454 and EDES 300 and HDFS 201.

This course will address planning an emergent, integrated curriculum, including webbing, documentation, and collaboration. Philosophical underpinnings of emergent curriculum are emphasized. Prerequisite: Must have completed HDFS 428.