Description
This course is designed specifically for students in the Nursing program and is designed to give a
general overview of life span development. Various theories of physical, cognitive social, emotional
and ethical dimensions of normal development will be studied from infancy through childhood,
adolescence and adulthood. What variables affect these domains? What are the nature-nurture
situations which make each person unique? The topics of illness, as well as death and dying will be
addressed in a manner combining both knowledge and application to patients and their families.