Social and Emotional Development
This course focuses social and emotional development from infancy through childhood. It covers general theories of emotion and emotional development as well as selected topics. These selected topics include emotional stress and coping, emotional expressiveness, children's aggression, sex role development, empathy, and peer relations. Both undergraduate and graduate students may enroll in the course. Undergraduates must have already taken a course in Child Development or obtain instructor consent. The course can serve as a Psychology Elective for undergraduate Psychology majors. Graduate students enrolled in the General-Experimental Psychology Program are required to take this course during their second or third year. Graduate students in other programs may also enroll. Course assignments are somewhat different for undergraduate and students as is appropriate for their differing levels of expertise.
P.S. The picture above shows teenage girls reacting to the Beatles' arrival in America, 1964.
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