Psychology 2308 · Child Psychology

Course Description
Competencies emphasize child growth and development processes, including biological and environmental factors which shape personality and affect achievement from prenatal development through adolescence. Requires observational case study where the student acquires, organizes, maintains, evaluates, and communicates case study, data and information.                                                           

Instructor
Carla Wells, Assistant Professor of Psychology

Wilkerson Hall (WH) - Room 233
Office: 432/335-6308
Home: 432/362-5303
E-mail: cwells@odessa.edu
Office hours: MW 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
TTh 9:00 - 9:30 a.m.; 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Answering machines are on both phones. Leave messages on my office machine any time of the day or night, and on my home machine between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m.

This Internet course is not designed to be "Child Psych Lite"... It’s the real deal!

The Internet class is not meant to be quick and easy. You will be cheating yourself if you don't put all your effort into doing your best in-depth work here. It is not meant to take less of your time or be easier than a regular classroom course. It would be doing you a disservice if you could just slide through and not learn what you need to know and what you are expected to know when you finish this course and go on to the next ones in your program. It is provided as a convenient form of learning for students whose schedules do not allow them to attend traditional classes. This method puts more of the responsibility for researching and learning on the student than the classroom experience does.

In a traditional classroom you would spend about 45 hours a semester in class, plus at least 45 hours outside class reading and studying the text, observing your lab child, writing a case study, and any other assignments. You can expect to spend a comparable amount of time on your Internet courses.