Instructor: Lesley L. Lambright 
Office: SOUTH campus E 313-4 
Phone: 586.445.7235 
E-Mail: lambrightl@macomb.edu
Office Hours posted in E 313-4

Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood, 3rd edition. Jeffery Jensen Arnett. Pearson Education, Inc. 2007.

Web site: www.prenhall.com/arnett

The student will be able to:

• Demonstrate critical thinking re: biological and sociocultural matters impacting adolescents.
• Explain cognitive and behavioral aspects of adolescent development.
• Use knowledge applicable to living and/or working with adolescent youth.

Use study groups, the web site, the learning center, and counseling to assist in your studies. These resources do work.

www.macomb.edu/LearningCenter/default.asp

Come visit on my office hours.

• There will be 4 tests and 4 open-book quizzes. Exams are based upon the assigned readings and not the lectures. A close careful reading and studying will ensure success. You may use notes.
• Exams are multiple-choice and are not cumulative. An exam may be made up only if arranged with the professor prior to the next class.
• You must provide the scantrons and #2 pencils for each exam.
• There will be one interview with an adolescent.
• There will be four Socratic seminars. The assessments must be typed and handed in the class period following the seminar.
• If class is cancelled, the schedule still stands. Assignments are due the very next day. A scheduled exam or project will take place the next class meeting. Read and prepare accordingly.
• There are no hats to be worn in class. Courteous respectful decorum is expected.
• Frequent absences may affect your final grade (4+).
• A C- may not transfer to university.

Socratic Seminars are conversations centered upon a “text”.  Prof Lambright provides the texts which are short articles relating to topics being studied in class.  It is a fun and unique way to apply what you are learning and make connections between the ideas of the textbook and ideas from real life and current events.

The seminars are a way to develop some really useful skills to be used in personal lives and careers:  reading for deeper understanding; developing critical thinking; speaking about ideas and issues; and team building.  At first glance this may not look like fun, but in practice it is both enjoyable and intellectually stimulating.

You will finish the course with a lot more to take away than only psychology facts.  You’ll know how to apply these facts, relate ideas, and talk with others about any issue in a successful manner.  The seminars and Socratic dialogue are described in much more detail in the first days of class and, of course, will be fully understood by experiencing them. 

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