SOCW 5310 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment

3 credit hours
This course provides foundational theoretical frameworks for understanding human development, human behavior, and the interaction between person and the environment. The course critically examines various theories from the ecological-developmental perspective, which emphasizes the ways in which the broader social environment shape human behavior and identity as well as effects of human behavior on the environment. Particular attention is paid to race, class, gender and sexual orientation as dynamic social constructions that can be both constraining and enabling forces in human development at all levels of social systems. Required.