Exploration of ways adults construct meaning, including intellectual, moral, and personality development. Gender and culture highlighted as they affect knowing. Applications to counseling, college student affairs work, administration, and leadership.
Human development is a lifelong process .
Student development focuses specifically on the development that traditional age students experience during their college careers. Some developmental tasks only begin during college and continue to challenge adults throughout their lifetimes. There are also an increasing number of nontraditional students in college, who may have different developmental experiences. Development occurs in a variety of arenas including cognitive and psychosocial development. Personality types and the ways in which students interact with their environments affect development.