PSYC339

This course will expand your knowledge of adolescent psychology through the unique experience of working in the field, while sharing that experience with your student peers. Through readings for the course, class discussions, classroom presentations and in-class workshps, we will work together to explore the complexities of adolescent experience. Through your own work in the field and the completion of a term paper, you will learn the connections of theory and practice. Together we will explore a variety of issues concerning the adolescent experience in the U.S. today, including, but not limited to: diverse experiences of adolescence related to gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, ability, and SES; physical changes and society's responses to those changes; as well as issues of psychological struggle, abuse, and bullying. We will also discuss a variety of approaches toward working with people in the adolecent stage of life. Due to obligations to community agencies and their clients, admission to fieldwork placements is at the discretion of the psychology faculty. Administration and Fieldwork Liability Insurance Fee. Fulfills Category 7 requirement. (Formerly Category 6)