HD 576 - Bi-Cultural Development Across the Lifespan

3 Credit(s)

This class will specifically focus on a framework of bicultural developments as it compares with monoculture developmental theories with an examination of the implications of bicultural developments for educators and human services professional working with bilingual and bicultural communities. The pertinent issues and major social-ecological influences that play an important role in shaping the development of bicultural children, adolescents, and adults will be explored. Culture and cognition bilingualism, and the bicultural process as they relate to identity formation will be examined. Students will evaluate what is means to be bicultural, synthesizing and creating models of bicultural development related to self and others.

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