Tentative Course Schedule & Assigned Readings

“Thomas” and “Dixon” refer to each of your respective assigned texts. You are also responsible for reading “additional readings” (if web readings; just click on the links) and instructor notes (“Notes” link located under each date). Readings indicated for each class date are to be read *prior* to that date.

DATE	TOPIC & READINGS
8/30/06	Read : Thomas Preface and Ch. 1 – 2; Dixon Preface , Chapter 1, and Chapter 19 Major issues in child development theories and standards of comparison Assignment 1 Due (will complete in class)
9/6/06 Notes	Assignment 2 Due Read: Thomas, Ch. 3; Additional Readings: The Feminine Mystique and Analysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy Topic: Psychoanalytic Theory – Freud
9/13/06 Notes	***PROPOSAL DUE*** Assignment 3 Due Read: Thomas, Ch. 4 and additional readings: Erikson and Ghosts in the Nursery (Fraiberg et al.) handed out in class Topic: Psychoanalytic Theory and Its Descendents
9/20/06 Notes	Assignment 4 Due Nicholas Presents Read: Thomas. Ch. 12; Dixon Ch. 10 - 11 Topic: Ethology (neo-Darwinism: Lorenz, Harlow, & Bowlby)
9/27/06 Notes	Assignment 5 Due Jennifer Presents Read: Dixon, Ch. 12 (handout from Becoming Attached) Topic: John Bowlby & Mary Ainsworth – Attachment Theory
10/4/06 Notes	Assignment 6 Due Ji Presents Read: Thomas, Ch. 5; Dixon Ch. 5; and additional reading: The Origins of Cognitive Thought Topic: Behaviorism (B.F. Skinner)
10/11/06 Notes	***ROUGH DRAFT DUE*** Assignment 7 Due Read: Thomas, Ch. 6; Dixon Ch. 14; and additional reading: Schulze pp105-1131.pdf Topic: Social Cognition Theory (Albert Bandura)
10/18/06 Notes	Assignment 8 Due Dr. Schulze in China—no class meeting Read: Thomas Ch. 9; and additional readings: Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence and Skeptic Interview with Robert Sternberg Topic: Information Processing Theories (Neo-Piagetian Approaches)
10/25/06 Notes	Assignment 9 Due Read: Thomas, Ch. 14 – 15; Dixon Ch. 15 Topic: Moral Development: Piaget, Kohlberg, & Gilligan
11/1/06 Notes	Assignment 10 Due Laurie Presents Read: Thomas, Ch. 7; Dixon Ch. 3 & 6; and additional reading: Applications: Education and Constructivism Topic: Jean Piaget - Cognitive Development Theory; Implications for Education/Practice
11/8/06 Notes	Assignment 11 Due Colleen Presents Read: Thomas Ch. 8; Dixon Ch. 4; and Youth Guidance Topic: Lev Vygotsky & Sociocultural Theory; contrast with other cognitive theories; and Implications for Education
11/15/06 Notes	Assignment 12 Due Katie Presents Read: Thomas Ch. 11, Dixon Ch. 22 Topic: Ecological Systems Theory
11/29/06	Assignment 13 Due Read” Thomas Ch. Ch. 16 (pp. 484-518), Seeing Children and Hearing Them, Too, http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v25n2/thelen.shtml, and http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Human_Development_Center/Roundtable/Harkness.pdf Topic: new directions in child development theory
12/6/04 Notes	Assignment 14 Due (“extra” assignment) Due Read: Dixon, Ch. 17, 18, 20, 21 Topic: Perennial Issues (Resilience, Caretaker Causality, Direction of Effect/Correlation v. Causation)
12/13/04	TERM PAPER DUE BY 5:00 p.m.