Apr 25, 2025  
2023-2024 Springfield College Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Springfield College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSYC 670 - Student Learning and Development


This course serves as a foundation course for those interested in a career fostering learning and development of college students. Focusing on ages 17 to 25, this course deals with psychological and social development and examines principle dimensions and conditions influencing development in this critical period. Relevant research findings are related to students’ current circumstances and stage of development. There will be an emphasis on exploring the historical, cultural, philosophical, and theoretical foundations of student development theory. Also, this course will integrate knowledge of developmental theories from constructivist, critical, and postmodern paradigms.
Credits: 3