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B.S. in Actuarial Science

Otterbein University Course Catalogs

2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

FYS 1059 - Adolescence: Crisis or Transition?

Hours: 4
Is adolescence just a transition in life, a place you pass through on your road to adulthood? Or is adolescence a discrete stage a life, a discontinuity from the childhood that came before and the adulthood that follows? Or, finally, was G. Stanley Hall, the father of American Psychology and the first to write about the Psychology of Adolescence, correct when he described adolescence as a time of “Sturm und Drang” (“Storm and Stress”)? This seminar will explore adolescence from a diversity of psychological perspectives as well as its representation in popular culture (autobiographical, literary, historical). You will compare insights from those representations with the observations, research and fieldwork drawn from psychology. We will explicitly focus on the intersections with gender, global culture, race/ethnicity and class as they overlap, compete and reinforce the developing adolescent identities.