HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

 

ELECTIVE

ELIGIBILITY:  10, 11, 12

PREREQUISITE:  None

CREDIT:  1/2

This course is designed to enable students to gain knowledge necessary to understand the developmental stages from adolescence through late adulthood.  The course will examine the developmental tasks, traits and problems of each of these stages.  Topics included are adolescent’s values and goals, sexuality, reproductive systems, pregnancy, contraception, STD’s, birth defects, dating, marriage, divorce, aging, death, and suicide.  The course was formerly called LIFE and should not be taken if you have previously taken this.