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Student and Faculty Connections

Rollins professor, student, and pre-school child look at a drawing together.

Student and Faculty Opportunities

Different research opportunities, independent studies, and internships are available at the Child Development Center. We welcome faculty and students from any department to participate and conduct research with young children and their families. Faculty sponsors are required, as well as approval from the Executive Director of the Child Development Center.

Course Collaborations and Projects

  • Undergraduate student and children playing in a sensory bin.

    Psychology

    • PSY 328 - DV: Developmental Psychology
    • PSY 150 - Perspectives in Psychology I: The Individual in Context
  • Child and student looking at a book

    English

    • ENGW 267 - Topics/Techniques in Writing

    Learn more about Dr. Matthew Forsythe's honor students Writing Books for & with Children project.

  • Professor and student working together

    Education

    • RED 309 - Fundamentals of Reading
    • EDU 280 - Diversity in American Education
  • Undergraduate students in a classroom with a professor holding flags

    Global Languages

    • SPN 301 - Advanced Spanish Through Literature and Film
  • Undergraduate students and children working on currents

    Physics

    Dr. Whitney Coyle's RCC students will demonstrate to the children how electrical current works by creating mechanisms for conductivity using regular items.

Ethics for the Very Young book cover

Ongoing Research Project

Philosophy with Young Children

This ongoing project with the 4-year-old children and Director Diane Doyle was developed with Dr. Erik Kenyon's philosophy students from 2015-2020. The curriculum was compiled into an Early Childhood curriculum book coauthored by Dr. Kenyon, Diane Doyle and Dr. Carnahan. Ethics for the Very Young was published in 2019.

Ethics for the Very Young