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| Infants and Toddlers | |||
| INFANT TODDLER | |||
| CLASS CODE: | CHILD 120 | CREDITS: 1 | |
| DIVISION: | EDUCATION & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT | ||
| DEPARTMENT: | CHILD & FAMILY STUDIES | ||
| GENERAL EDUCATION: | This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. | ||
| DESCRIPTION: | Explore normal development of infants and toddlers including physical, cognitive, social and emotional domains of development. Application to parenting and other caregiving situations. |
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| TAUGHT: | Fall and Winter | ||
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: | Newborns: Screening, reflexes, senses, feeding, sleep issues Physical development: growth, nutrition, health and safety, motor development Cognitive development: language, intelligence, memory Socio-emotional development: emotions, attachment, temperament, play Environmental influences on development, especially parenting issues Teaching and guiding very young children Finding balance in marriage as parents |
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| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: | The students will be able to recognize and describe normal development in infants and toddlers. They will learn to correctly apply this knowledge to the care of infants and toddlers in their immediate or future experience. |
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| REQUIREMENTS: | Reading assignments, quizzes, exams, application papers, short research findings | ||
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: | August 2003 | ||