Department of Human Development
224 Mather Memorial
Phone: 386-2638
George Rosenberg
Valerie Brown, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University)
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Joseph F. Fagan, Ph.D. (University of Connecticut)
Professor and Chair, Psychology
J. Randal Johnson, Ph.D. (University of Washington)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology
Eva Kahana, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
Co-Coordinator, Human Development
Pierce F. and Elizabeth D. Robson Professor and Chair, Sociology
Jill E. Korbin, Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Jerome Kowal, M.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
Professor, School of Medicine
Danielle Ripich, Ph.D. (Kent State University)
Associate Professor and Chair, Communication Sciences
George Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Columbia University)
Professor, Sociology
Program Coordinator, Human Development
David D. Van Tassel, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin)
Elbert Jay Benton Professor of History
May Wykle, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. (Case Western Reserve University)
Professor and Chair of Gerontological Nursing, School of Nursing
The program in medical and social aspects of human development is an interdisciplinary minor organized around critical health issues throughout the life course. It brings together in one forum perspectives from medicine with those of anthropology, communication sciences, history, psychology, and sociology. It provides practical, clinical and research experience for the undergraduate student and puts the undergraduate into contact with students in the School of Medicine. A student may begin work on this minor in the sophomore year and continue on through the first semester of the senior year.
The minor is divided into three segments and consists of 15 credit hours. During the first year students participate in an introductory course (HDEV 202/SOCI 203 Human Development) which provides an informative overview of human development. Medical perspectives are combined with humanistic and social science perspectives on life course development. Co-teachers of this course bring alternative social science and health science perspectives to understanding human development. In addition, students enroll in a traditional course in child development (PSCL 230 Child Psychology).
- HDEV 202/HDEV 202, Human Development
- PSCL 230, Child Psychology
In the second year of the program students specialize further in research and/or clinical approaches to life course transitions. Students select two courses from a number of relevant electives combining medical and social science approaches to their subject matter:
- COSI 313, Language Development (3)
- PSCL 369, Adult Development and Aging (3)
- SOCI 313B, Social Factors in Stress and Coping (3)
- SOCI 361, Human Development over the Life Course
- SOCI 369, Aging in American Society (3)
- ANTH 304, Introduction to the Anthropology of Aging (3)
- ANTH 306, The Anthropology of Childhood and the Family (3)
- HSTY 374, History of Old Age in Western Society (3)
- AMST 371, Women in American History II (3)
In the third year, students participate in a one-semester capstone experience, HDEV 391, Practicum in Human Development. They have the opportunity to participate in an ongoing clinical or research project in a department involved in the program. Every effort is made to match student interests with available projects at the medical school or in participating departments. This provides an independent but supervised experience that gives a student the opportunity to work closely with a faculty member from College of Arts and Sciences or from the Medical School in a way that synthesizes much of the previous course work.
HDEV 202, Human Development (3). (cross listed as SOCI 203).
Social influences on health and illness across the lifespan. Social determinants of health and health behavior, and delivery of health care. Guest lectures from the medical school and other health care providers address professional practice issues across the lifespan. Issues include: new approaches to birthing; adolescent substance abuse: myths and realities of AIDS; risk factors and heart disease in middle age; menopause, cognition and aging - Alzheimer's disease; problems in care of elderly; medical ethic of death and dying.
PSCL 230, Child Psychology (3).
The basic facts and principles of psychological development from the prenatal period through adolescence.
HDEV 391, Practicum in Human Development (3).
Students design a project in consultation with HDEV program coordinator and a faculty supervisor from the Medical School or College of Arts and Sciences. The faculty supervisor may be chosen by the student or recommended by program coordinators. Students periodically meet with program coordinator in a seminar format to review practicum experiences and place them in a theoretical context.
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