Social and Personality Development

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Build on what you learned in an introductory course on development, with a focus on social processes and contexts.
• Learn to critically analyze and discuss social developmental research using the principles of scientific thinking.
• Demonstrate content knowledge of the major theories and key aspects of social development in childhood.
• An ability to review the literature on a particular topic.
• Experience generating research ideas to solve problems or consider new perspectives.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Quizzes	30%
Attendance/Participation	10%
Paper #1	30%
Paper #2	30%

Grading Scale:

Percentage	Letter Grade
93% or higher	A
90-92%	A-
87-89%	B+
83-86%	B
80-82%	B-
77-79%	C+
73-76%	C
70-72%	C-
67-69%	D+
63-66%	D
60-62%	D-
Under 60%	F

Attendance/Participation:

To encourage engagement with course material, periodic in-class attendance and participation checks will be administered. These activities may include brief quizzes, polls, reflections, or content questions and can only be completed during class. Because attendance checks occur at various points throughout the semester, students are expected to attend class regularly and arrive on time. To allow for occasional absences, the lowest three attendance scores will be dropped. Make-up attendance checks will not be offered.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Social Development (3rd Edition) by Ross Parke, Glenn Roisman, and Amanda Rose ISBN: 978-1-119-49746-2