This course provides insights into aspects of human development across the lifespan.

10 x one hour lectures

None

100% written assignment, completed and submitted in a group.

This course explores human development and its diversity across the lifespan including childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. It explores brain development, social and emotional development, cognitive development, their necessary interactions and the impact of factors such as culture and context on the interplay of these developmental strands.

By the end of the course students will be able to:

■ Undertake critical evaluations of data collecting procedures in developmental psychology, especially in complex and vulnerable cohorts

■ Critically evaluate evidence from a range of empirical studies on age-related change at key stages through the life span from prenatal development, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, into old age.

■ Identify and define the evidence for risk and protective factors in development

■ Critically analyse the interplay between physical, cognitive, and social and emotional development across development

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.