HSH 253 - Human Growth & Development

3 Credit Hours

This course focuses on how to deal successfully with life changes/transitions as well as the associated stress and anxiety by understanding the stages of human development and their implications; analyzing established patterns of coping with change; and developing personal strategies for dealing with future transitions. The course is an in-depth look at ways of describing, predicting, explaining and modifying a person’s behavior in the eight stages of growth from conception to death. Students will be provided with a learning experience that enables them to enhance their personal growth and development as well learning to assist others to begin the process of making positive life changes.