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A child development course at Arizona Christian University.
This course is designed to introduce students to the child life field and to provide the student with fundamental skills to help children and families cope when encountering a health care experience. Students will learn evaluation and intervention strategies. The course is taught by a CCLS and is part of the preparation for becoming a child life specialist.
Engage the Course Material
Build a working understanding of child life as the course's central subject.
Apply Discipline Methods
Use the methods, vocabulary, and frameworks of the discipline to address course problems.
Connect Course Content
Connect this course's content to broader work in the discipline and related fields.
Demonstrate Course Competencies
Demonstrate the specific competencies the course is designed to develop.
A Biblical Worldview treats the work of mathematics and teaching as careful, honest engagement with what's true and with the students who learn from it.
CHD409 is part of ACU's child development curriculum. Explore the programs that include it.
