Social, Emotional, and Personality Development

The story of human development across the lifespan, with an emphasis on how people acquire the capacities for mutually beneficial social relations, positive motivation, and mature self-understanding. Topics include socialization, identity, purpose, moral commitment, anti-social behavior, SEL (social and emotional learning in schools), gender, culture, self-concept, and personality. This course is a DAPS core course open to other doctoral and master's students and to advanced undergraduates with some prior coursework in human development.