COURSE ID: VH012221V
Virtual Child Development
This course covers parenting skills and the development of the young child from conception through preschool age. Units covered include teenage sexuality decisions, pregnancy, methods of contraception, including abstinence, prenatal development, childbirth, parenting, physical, emotional, social, and intellectual growth of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, children’s health and safety needs, and parenting issues such as birth defects and child abuse. Students will be introduced to child care careers through field trips to a variety of child care and preschool environments and complete a simulated parenting experience of an infant.
