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2023-2026 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

NUR 2115 - Human Growth and Development Through the Lifespan

(3 Credits)

This course provides an overview of major concepts, theories, and research on human development from prenatal to end-of-life. Significant factors that influence individual functioning are explored. This course focuses on the fundamentals of human development from birth to death. The course explores the variety of personal and developmental contexts that influence growth, such as socioeconomic status, culture, genetics, family, school, and society. This course examines biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial development across the lifespan. Study the developing person through the lifespan by examining the relationship of selected environmental and social factors to human growth and development. Consideration of the meaning of health and illness to the individual, the family, and the community within the context of life as a continuing, dynamic process from conception through death. Forty-five (45) lecture hours.
Pre-requisite(s): NUR 2110 , NUR 2121 , NUR 2122 , NUR 2123 , NUR 2311 , NUR 2312 
Corequisite(s): NUR 2311