PSYC 286 - Advanced Topics in Developmental Psychology

FALL 2021: Learning, Development, and Culture. This course focuses on how learning, development, and culture play a combined role in impacting students. We will consider the dynamic roles student agency and cultural contexts play in human development. Classes will feature opportunities for rich discussion, thought provoking activities, and guests from community organizations and other scholars in the field.

SPRING 2022: Developmental Perspectives on Food and Appearance. In this seminar-style, discussion-based course, we will explore how attitudes and behaviors towards food, weight, and appearance develop and change throughout childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood. This course will examine both adaptive and maladaptive/disordered eating tendencies, including disordered eating and intuitive eating, as well as various facets of body image, such as body appreciation and body dissatisfaction, and the developmental trajectories these processes typically follow. We will investigate various biological, psychological, social, and sociocultural influences on food, weight, and appearance, including the media, social media, family, friends, cognitive processes, and puberty.

 Prerequisites for this course require a grade of C- or better

This course fulfills the capstone requirement of the Psychology major.

 

Prerequisites:  PSYC 108  and PSYC 109  , PSYC 150  /PSYC 152  / PSYC 153 /or PSYC 156  , and a First Seminar (PSYC 236-259).

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically