Area E Understanding Personal Development
1. Enhances the student's understanding of the development of
the individual as an integrated physiological, psychological, and social
being.
2. Includes a study of how internal and external influences interact
in human development and behavior within the context of the human life
span.
3. For courses enhancing understanding of the self as a physiological,
social and psychological entity, address the following criteria statement:
4. Promotes critical self-understanding, and accordingly will involve
consideration of such topics as individual behavior, the relation of
the person to the social and natural environment, human sexuality,
nutrition, health, stress, family, aging and death.
5. For courses developing an art or a skill, address the following
criteria statement:
6. Promotes the lifelong understanding and development of students
as integrated physiological and psychological entities, through the
acquisition of a recreation, avocational, or artistic skill. [The
course proposal must specify how the activities or performances will
contribute to understanding the personal development of an integrated
individual.]
*Note: Three unit courses in this area may include
an activity/skills component, but it is not to exceed one-third of
the course content. No more than one unit of activity/skills course
work may be used to satisfy the Area E requirement.
Students will
1.Recognize and critically examine the development of the individual
as an integrated physiological, psychological, and social being.
2.The student will be able to identify the internal and external influences
that interact in human development and behavior within the context
of the human life span.
For courses enhancing understanding of the self as a physiological,
social and psychological entity, address the following criteria statement:
1. Critically examine their own individual behavior in relationship
to topics as social and natural environment, human sexuality, nutrition,
health stress, family, aging and death.
For courses developing an art or skill, addresses the following criteria
statement:
1. Examine and create ways, through the acquisition of a recreation,
avocation or artistic skill, that will enhance their own life long
understanding of their development as an integrated physiological and
psychological entity.
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