This Lifespan Development course contains eleven modules, which provides room for flexibility to teach the course within a variety of semester constraints. In a common fifteen-week semester, instructors may pick the areas they prefer to emphasize and stretch these modules over two or more weeks. The “smallest” modules are the first introductory module, Lifespan Development, and the final module on Death and Dying, but the modules on Middle Adulthood and Late Adulthood are also a bit smaller. The largest modules, that could easily be drawn out to cover more than one week, are those on Infancy, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, and Early Adulthood.
| Weeks | 15-week semester | 8-week semester |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Module 1: Lifespan Development | Module 1: Lifespan Development and Module 2: Developmental Theories |
| Week 2 | Module 2: Developmental Theories | Module 3: Prenatal Development and Module 4: Infancy |
| Week 3 | Module 3: Prenatal Development | Module 5: Early Childhood |
| Week 4 | Module 4: Infancy | Module 6: Middle Childhood |
| Week 5 | Module 4: Infancy | Module 7: Adolescence |
| Week 6 | Module 5: Early Childhood | Module 8: Early Adulthood |
| Week 7 | Module 5: Early Childhood | Module 9: Middle Adulthood and Module 10: Late Adulthood |
| Week 8 | Module 6: Middle Childhood | Module 11: Death and Dying |
| Week 9 | Module 6: Middle Childhood | |
| Week 10 | Module 7: Adolescence | |
| Week 11 | Module 8: Early Adulthood | |
| Week 12 | Module 8: Early Adulthood | |
| Week 13 | Module 9: Middle Adulthood | |
| Week 14 | Module 10: Late Adulthood | |
| Week 15 | Module 11: Death and Dying |
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