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Key Courses in Human Development at Brown

CSHD has identified a number of courses at Brown relevant to the study of human development that can provide a strong background in the social, behavioral and cognitive sciences as they pertain to human development. Students interested in the study of children's development from birth through adolescence and the major contexts that influence such development should consider the many courses below.

 

 Overview of Field Issues and Topics

  • ED80 Introduction to Human Development and Education, or
  • PY81 Child Development

 Statistics Courses

  • CG/PY 9 Quantitative Methods in Psychology, or
  • ED111 Introductory Statistics for Educational Research and Policy Analysis, or
  • SOC110 Introductory Statistics for Social Research

 Methods/Research Seminar Courses

  • CG163 Laboratory in Cognitive Development, or
  • ED110 Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
  • SO102 Sociological Inquiry

 Historical Overview

  • ED/PY 171 History and Theories in Child Development


Additional Courses

Additional courses can be distributed across two broad categories of interest - Ecology of Child Development and Internal Processes of Development. Students are encouraged to take at least two courses drawn from each set.

 Set A: Ecology of Child Development

  • AC161 Child Welfare in Twentieth Century America (Mr. Meckel)
  • AN20 Culture and Human Behavior (Ms. Hollos)
  • AN25 Growing Up Ethnic and Multicultural (Mr. Anderson)
  • AN136 Cultural Perspectives on Human Development (Ms. Hollos)
  • AN139 Culture and Cognition (Ms. Hollos)
  • ED103 The Psychology of Race, Class & Gender (Ms. Miller)
  • ED127 Adolescent Development (Ms. Miller)
  • ED/SO147 Sociology of Children and Adolescents (Mr. Modell)
  • ED158 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Child Development (Ms. Li)
  • ED185 Moral Education (Ms. Li)
  • ED186 Social Contexts of Learning and Development (Ms. Li)
  • ED/PY 193 Contemporary Social Problems:
         Views from Human Development and Education (Ms. Garcia Coll)
  • PS109 Children and Public Policy (Mr. Cheit)
  • PY174 Relationships and Human Development (Mr. Seifer)
  • SO2 Perspectives on Social Interaction (Mr. Elliott)
  • SO17 The Family (Staff)
  • SO30 Freshman seminars: section 03: Who am I? (Mr. Elliott)
  • SO71 Transitions: Leaving Home, Family Formation, and Aging (Staff)
  • SO143 Social Structure & Personal Development (Mr. Elliot)
  • SO144 Intimate Violence (Mr. Elliot)

 Set B: Internal Processes of Development

  • CG44 Perception and Mind (Mr. Tarr)
  • CG45 Language and the Mind (Mr. Morgan)
  • CG63 Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development (Mr. Sobel)
  • CG118 Topics in Cognitive Development (Mr. Sobel)
  • CG143 Child Language Acquisition (Ms. Demuth)
  • CG174 Topics in Language Acquisition (Demuth/Morgan)
  • CG147 Language Learning Disorders (Ms. Demuth)
  • CG163 Perception and Cognition in Infancy (Mr. Morgan)
  • CG186 Topics in Cognitive Science (Staff)
  • PY30 Personality (Mr. Hayden)
  • PY33 Abnormal Psychology (Mr. Hayden)
  • PY47 Brain Damage and the Mind (Mr. Heindel)
  • PY55 Introduction to Sleep (Ms. Carskadon)
  • PY75 Principles of Behavioral Neuroscience (Ms. Burwell)
  • PY94 Developmental Psychopathology (Staff)
  • PY174 (Relationships and Human Development (Mr. Seifer)