UEDU 260 - Developmental Psychology Urban Context

3 Credits
In this course, students will be introduced to the most influential and widely researched theories of developmental psychology, with a specific emphasis on child and adolescent development. The course also will examine the negative impact of stressors faced by youth in urban settings, such as concentrated poverty, community violence exposure, and other forms of trauma. Special consideration will be devoted to how these challenges affect children of color and how their resilience is supported in the face of it. Students will be introduced to the life-span perspective of human development, starting with phenomena in utero and the fundamental theories of attachment and then considering the biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes that continuously shape our species’ growth and change.