Child Development

Course Description:  This honors level course allows students to investigate the major influences on child development including culture, heredity, and environmental factors. Students explore the importance of early relationships and how they promote healthy brain development while identifying characteristics of children birth through age five.  Students identify the different theories of child development and their impact on the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive domains of development in children.  Students gain the knowledge and skills for careers in early childhood development and services. 

Child Development will be offered in the Fall of 2026.  It is a pre-requisite for Early Childhood Education 1 and a suggested co-requisite for Teaching as a Profession I.