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Graduate Diploma

Courses Offered in EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

The following courses are available for your Graduate Diploma. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Adult Development

  • This course discusses aspects of “successful aging,” covering growth and development from young adulthood-old age, and impact that culture, gender, and individual differences have on these processes. Its positive tone keeps you interested in the subject, as it encourages you to apply the concepts of course to your own life.

  • 6 Credits

  • Educational Psychology in Learning

  • This course covers a broad range of learning theories, including behaviorist, social cognitive, cognitive, and developmental. Complex learning and cognition, including meta-cognition, transfer, and social processes in knowledge construction are also covered. Key emphasis is on behaviorism, developmental theories of Piaget and Vygotsky, and a motivation section.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Child Development

  • Introduction to Child Development course provides students of psychology as well as other disciplines; who undertake the study of child development, with text that provides a comprehensive survey of the main areas of child development, from infancy through to adolescence.

  • 6 Credits

  • Lifespan Development

  • This course reflects field of Human Development in its current state. Lifespan Development prepares you to understand physical, social, emotional and intellectual growth and development throughout lifespan. Content includes child development theories and research; Prenatal development; Infants and toddlers; Preschool years; Middle childhood; adolescence; adulthood; Death and dying.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Educational Psychology

  • The emphasis of Introduction to Educational Psychology course is placed on principles of learning and cognition, teaching methods and classroom management, child growth and development, and evaluation and assessment of learning.

  • 6 Credits

Adult Development

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to adult development
    Physical changes
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Health and health habits
    Cognitive abilities
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Social roles
    Social relationships
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Work and retirement
    Personality
    The quest for meaning
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Stress, coping, and resistance
    Death and bereavement
    The successful journey

Educational Psychology in Learning

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Perspectives on learning
    Learning and the brain
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Behaviorism and classical conditioning
    Instrumental conditioning
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Applications of instrumental conditioning
    Social cognitive theory
    Introduction to cognition and memory
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Long-term memory i: storage
    Long-term memory ii: the nature of knowledge
    Long-term memory iii: retrieval and forgetting
    Developmental perspectives on cognition
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Metacognition, self-regulated learning, and study strategies
    Transfer and problem solving
    Social processes in knowledge construction
    Motivation and affect
    Cognitive factors in motivation

Introduction to Child Development

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Studying early childhood development in a diverse world.
    Historical perspectives and research in early childhood development.
    Theories of child development.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Genetics, prenatal development, and birth.
    The newborn.
    Infant physical growth and brain development.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Cognitive development in infancy.
    Infant language and literacy.
    Infant social and emotional development.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Preschool physical and motor development.
    Cognitive development in the preschool years.
    Symbolic thought, play, language, and literacy in the preschool years.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Social and emotional development of preschoolers.
    Physical growth and motor development in the primary years.
    Cognition and schooling.
    Language, literacy, and schooling.
    Social and emotional development in the primary years.
    Parents, families, and children: a multicultural perspective.

Lifespan Development

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to human development
    Heredity and environment
    Prenatal development and childbirth
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Infancy and toddlerhood: physical, cognitive, and language development
    Infancy and toddlerhood: personality and sociocultural development
    Early childhood: physical, cognitive, and language development
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Early childhood: personality and sociocultural development
    Middle childhood: physical and cognitive development
    Middle childhood: personality and sociocultural development
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Adolescence: physical and cognitive development
    Adolescence: personality and sociocultural development
    Young adulthood: physical and cognitive development
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Young adulthood: personality and sociocultural development
    Middle adulthood: physical and cognitive development
    Middle adulthood: personality and sociocultural development
    Older adulthood: physical and cognitive development
    Older adulthood: personality and sociocultural development
    Death and dying

Introduction to Educational Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Educational psychology: developing a professional knowledge base
    The development of cognition and language
    Personal, social, and emotional development
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Group and individual differences
    Learners with exceptionalities
    Behaviorism and social cognitive theory
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Cognitive views of learning
    Constructing knowledge
    Complex cognitive processes
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Theories of motivation
    Motivation in the classroom
    Creating productive learning environments: classroom management
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Creating productive learning environments: principles and models of instruction
    Learning and instruction and technology
    Assessing classroom learning
    Assessment through standardized testing

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