Course Descriptions

EDUC 202 The Learner in the Educational Context: Development and Diversity (3). Core: Persons in Community. This course will help students develop insight into the development of the mind, identity, and perspective of all learners, including multiple domains of diversity and many alternate ways of being, doing, and seeing, including what is typically labeled as "exceptionality." Students will explore and analyze psychological, physical, social, cultural and moral/spiritual facets of development as well as their interplay with the social environment of the learner and their impacts on the classroom. Through lectures, readings, class assignments, field experiences, and case study projects the class will examine psychological, educational, biological, and socio-cultural theory through the lens of a reformed Christian perspective. This course must be satisfactorily completed as a condition of program admission. Prerequisite: Completion of EDUC 102.