Human Growth and Development

If it is the psychology course, it is probably lifespan human development, so it discusses human developmental stages - physical, cognitive, and psychosocial - from a variety of theoretical standpoints in the biological, sociological, and psychological disciplines. I would take a look at the syllabus for the course to get a better description.

I'm pretty sure it's a psychology course. In my college we call it Life Cycle development. They make you learn birth all the way to death. We had a really easy teacher and I aced the class. Good luck you'll do fine! :)

In my class, I heard complaints that some test questions were not from power-point or class lecture.

I would read the relevant textbook pages before or after lecture.

Thanks! It is the psych course. :) I always read the whole chapters and take notes as I go. Hopefully this will be an easy one!

I took it online over the summer last year. We had a big research paper due at the end, but the rest was pretty easy, discussion posts, quizzes, ect

Take my final for this course tomorrow. I can't say for your school but I loved it. My instructor is a retired social worker and had an example for everything. It is a psychology courses based from birth to death. Good class.

Good day, ratlady:

I just finished life span development; it is an easy class if you put in the time every week to keep up. The time commitment (considering it was three credits) was minor.

Thank you.

Glad I read this post. I'm taking this class online also an eight week course. Just bought my book and I start in two weeks.

I took it online last summer and I thought it was easy. There was some brief introduction to general psychology principles at the beginning, but nothing too hard if you took Psych 101. Then, it just goes through a human lifespan and discusses the development and challenges faced at each stage.

I took it online through psychology and found it fairly easy. Just keep up with readings and do papers and assignments timely and you will be fine. I got an A. Taking A and P 1 online now and find it a lot harder (although doable as well). Good luck!

Nursing classes will always refer back to the various theories of development, over and over. Practically every clinical assessment and care plan I did in N II and N III asked me to determine what stage of development in Erikson's, Freud's, Piaget's, what stage of Maslow's Hierarchy. You use these growth and development theories to help plan patient care. A nurse always has to be able to justify actions by pointing to a source that says "you do this." You can't just make up something because you thought it was a good idea, in other words. You have to cite a basis for your decisions.