This seminar introduces you to social, emotional, and personality development, a research area with important theoretical, practical, and policy applications.  The coverage is broad in scope but selective, based on ideas and issues that are currently the focus of research inquiry.  The domain of coverage is life-span, although the principal interest is with developmental processes from birth through adolescence, which is true of the field.  The findings of research and the methods of research inquiry are each part of our study this quarter.