SWK 3440 Human Behavior Across the Lifespan

(Formerly Human Behavior in the Social Environment II)

Writing-Intensive Course

This course is a continuation of Human Behavior in the Social Environment I. Emphasis is on the developmental life course from conception through late adulthood. The course seeks to inform and sensitize students to the complex interchange between persons and their environment, which both facilitate and inhibit human development. The life course perspective recognizes the significance of gender, race, ethnicity and social class diversity as determinates of human behavior. General patterns of person and environment are viewed through the unique stories of individual case studies.

Credits

3

Distribution

Social Work

Offered

Spring