1) Overview of Child Development
2) Overview of theories – frued erikson vygotski piaget
3) Basic principles
4) History
5) Research methods
6) Nature vs. nurture debate
7) Prenatal Development
8) Stages of prenatal development
9) Mechanisms of heredity
10) Genetic testing and new technology
11) Environmental influences/hazards
12) Ethics
13) Cultural Perspectives
14) Birth and Newborn
15) Birth process
16) Alternatives for birthing
17) Physical development of newborn
18) Prematurity
19) Medical and behavioral screening
20) Newborn and their families
21) Supportive environments
22) Cross cultural perspective
23) Children with special needs
24) Physical Development in First Three Years
25) Brain research
26) Sensory capabilities
27) Motor development
28) Health
29) Cross cultural perspective
30) Children with special needs
31) Psychosocial Development in First Three Years
32) Erikson theory and Freud theory
33) Attachment
34) Siblings
35) Emotions
36) Temperament
37) Aggression
38) Children with special needs
39) Impact of child care
40) Cognitive Development During the First Three Years
41) Behavioral approach
42) Piaget’s theory
43) Cognitive neuroscience approach
44) Vygotsky’s theory
45) Children with special needs
46) Impact of child care
47) Language Development During the First Three Years
48) Theories of language development – nature vs. nurture
49) Stages of language development – expressive and receptive
50) Factors influencing language development and early literacy
51) Linguistic and cultural differences
52) Relationship between language and thought
53) Vygotsky and Piaget’s position on language
54) Physical Development and Health in Early Childhood
55) Physical growth and change
56) Motor development
57) Health and safety
58) Maltreatment and abuse
59) Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
60) Piaget’s theory – preoperations
61) Implication of Piagetian theory for educational practice
62) Development of language
63) Information – processing approaches and memory
64) Early Childhood education and developmentally and culturally appropriate practice
65) Children with special educational needs
66) Working with families in early childhood
67) Psychosocial Development in Early Childhood
68) Developing self – Erikson’s theory
69) Play – types of play and role of play
70) Role of peers and friendship
71) Aggression
72) Pro-social development
73) Gender issues
74) Family relationships and parenting styles
75) Physical Growth and Health in Middle Childhood
76) Growth and change
77) Motor development
78) Health and safety issues
79) Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
80) Piaget’s theory – concrete operations
81) Information processing and memory
82) Intelligence and intelligence testing
83) Language development
84) School achievement and the environment
85) Children with special educational needs
86) Psychosocial Development in Middle Childhood
87) Sense of self
88) Erikson’s theory
89) Role and influence of family
90) Role and influence of peers
91) Mental health issues
92) Gender issues
93) Cognitive Development in Adolescence
94) Piaget’s theory – formal operations
95) Elkind and adolescent thought
96) Kohlberg’s stages of moral reasoning
97) Piaget’s stages of moral reasoning
98) Schooling
99) Psychosocial Development in Adolescence
100) Erikson’s theory and identity
101) Relationships with family and peers
102) Role of Culture and Environment Upon Children’s Development
103) Child viewed in context of family and society
104) Respecting similarities and differences in children due to family structure, gender, linguistic, cultural and socioeconomic background
Providing for children with special physical, social, emotional, and cognitive needs