AT 7-001_FA21: Course Alias: at7-1-fa@eckerd.edu
Human infants are helpless, adorable creatures. Human parents often feel helpless, too, when they begin to explore the wide variety of perspectives on how to best care for their infant. Infancy has been described as a critical period for human development, a notion which is consistent with research indicating long-term effects of deprivation or enrichment during this period. Given the importance of this relatively brief period of life, the way we care for infants looms large and getting it ?right? becomes a seemingly unattainable goal for new parents. In this course, students will learn how experiences during the first few years of life continue to impact our development throughout the lifespan. Just how critical is this critical period, anyway? In addition, students will examine popular parenting approaches, from attachment to free-range parenting, co-sleeping to sleep training, and evaluate these approaches based on developmental research. Along the way, students will practice skills that are essential to college success, including reading and reflecting on empirical research, analyzing media, interviewing, and giving oral presentations.
Human infants are helpless, adorable creatures. Human parents often feel helpless, too, when they begin to explore the wide variety of perspectives on how to best care for their infant. Infancy has been described as a critical period for human development, a notion which is consistent with research indicating long-term effects of deprivation or enrichment during this period. Given the importance of this relatively brief period of life, the way we care for infants looms large and getting it ?right? becomes a seemingly unattainable goal for new parents. In this course, students will learn how experiences during the first few years of life continue to impact our development throughout the lifespan. Just how critical is this critical period, anyway? In addition, students will examine popular parenting approaches, from attachment to free-range parenting, co-sleeping to sleep training, and evaluate these approaches based on developmental research. Along the way, students will practice skills that are essential to college success, including reading and reflecting on empirical research, analyzing media, interviewing, and giving oral presentations.
- Enseignant: Jennifer Chapman