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YS 610 - Youth Development (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None
This course focuses on the history of the Youth Development field, current frameworks, the latest related findings in neuroscience, as well as promising practices in youth development. Students will learn the basics of facilitation steeped in youth development principles and practices. Students will become familiar with tools used to measure socio-emotional development as well as a variety of program quality assessment tools. Students will explore youth development at the intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality and learn to aply these lenses in theory and practice.