0 or 3 credits
Spring 2026 Laboratory Lecture Distance Learning Lower Division
This course provides an introduction to motor development from a life-span perspective. Students will learn how infants develop from mainly reflexive beings into children and adults that are capable of interacting with the world in a goal-directed manner. This course specifically examines how changes in physical growth, aging, and maturation of the central nervous system influence motor performance. Finally, the decline of motor skills associated with advanced age is discussed.
Learning Outcomes1Students will be able to describe how motor skills develop in children and decline in older adults.
2Students will be able to apply the principles of motor development to clinical, education, and sport sciences settings.
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