PSY302 011 F20 course outline LaunchPad.pdf - PSY...

PSY 302/F2020/YANG 1
COURSE OUTLINE: PSY302 (
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
)
Section 011 , Fall 2020
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
RYERSON UNIVERSITY
MEETING TIME: Wednesday 3 – 6 pm, VIRTUAL (Zoom Meeting time: 4 - 5:30 pm)
Instructor: Lixia Yang Ph.D. E-mail: [email protected]
Teaching Assistant: Shruti Vyas E-mail : [email protected]
Office hours:
Wednesday 2-3 pm (by appointment only)
LENGTH OF COURSE: One Semester
COURSE DESIGNATION: Professionally-related
PREREQUISITE: PSY 11 or PSY 102 or PSY 105; Restriction: EC001, EC003
Students registered in a Ryerson program or intending to register in a program should examine their
program's curriculum and the Ryerson calendar carefully. To graduate from a program, students require a
number of Liberal Studies credits. Ryerson courses are correspondingly designated Professional,
Professionally-related or Liberal Studies. The Liberal Studies courses are further divided into Lower-level
(normally for first and second year credit) and Upper-level (normally for third and fourth year credit)
courses. Students may not use a Professionally-related Psychology course for a Liberal Studies credit or
vice versa, nor may you use a Lower-level Liberal Studies course for Upper-level Liberal Studies credit.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course introduces students to the methods, theories, findings and practical applications of research in
the area of child development. The focus is on describing the significant changes in physical, cognitive,
social and emotional development and on explaining why these changes occur. This course also discusses
the immediate contextual influences of families, peer groups, and schools as well as the broader
contextual influences of subculture, culture, and historical era.
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK
Regular textbook: Siegler, R.. S., Saffran J., Eisenberg, N., DeLoache, J. S.,
Gershoff, E., & Graham, S. (2020). How Children Develop (The 6 th Canadian
edition). Macmillan Learning. New York: Worth Publishers.
ISBN: 9781319420710
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Storefront URL (which includes 6-month access to the course and 4-year free access to the
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COURSE FORMAT AND LECTURES/READINGS
This course will be presented in lecture format, with a 1-1.5 hr Zoom meeting each week. Students are
expected to read the assigned chapters in preparation for each class. The lectures elaborate and extend the
materials presented in the textbook. The lectures may skip some content of the textbook and they may
contain materials not covered in the textbook. Some videos may not be available outside class or during
office hours. So students are expected to attend each lecture and take notes. This course is on D2L where
students can access to all course-relevant information. The PowerPoint slides with transcripts will be
posted on D2L before each class. All changes to the course schedule will be announced in class and/or on
D2L. Students are responsible to check D2L regularly to keep updated.