Human Development - Requirements for the Major
Human Development Program | Human Development Minor Requirements | Course Descriptions
Supporting Courses, 7 credits
Basic Foundational Knowledge and Skills
Required 3 credits:
- HUM DEV 210 Introduction to Human Development, 3 credits
Research Skills courses, required 4 credits:
One of these:
- COMM SCI 205 Social Science Statistics, 4 credits (strongly recommended)
- MATH 260 Introductory Statistics, 4 credits
For Business Majors and Minors Only - both courses required:
- BUS ADM 215 Introduction to Business Statistics, 3 credits
and - BUS ADM 217 Advanced Business Statistics, 3 credits
Upper-Level Course Requirements, minimum of 30 credits
(Note: The courses below have prerequisites.)Multidisciplinary Coursework: 9 credits
Psychology, choose 3 credits:
- PSYCH 417 Psychology of Cognitive Processes, 3 credits
- PSYCH 429 Theories of Personality, 3 credits
- PSCYH 438 Counseling Across the Lifespan, 3 credits
Sociology/Anthropology, choose 3 credits:
- ANTHRO 304 Family, Kin, and Community, 3 credits
- ANTHRO 320 Myth, Ritual, Symbol and Religion, 3 credits
- ANTHRO 340 Medical Anthropology, 3 credits
- SOCIOL 302 Class, Status and Power, 3 credits
- SOCIOL 303 Race and Ethnic Relations, 3 credits
- SOCIOL 308 Sociology of the Family, 3 credits
- SOCIOL 315 Street Gangs in America, 3 credits
Biological course, choose 3 credits :
- HUM BIOL 205 Biotechnology and Human Values, 3 credits
- HUM BIOL 206 Fertility, Reproduction and Family Planning, 3 credits
- HUM BIOL 217 Human Disease and Society, 3 credits
- HUM BIOL 324 The Biology of Women, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 350 Developmental Psychobiology, 3 credits
- NUT SCI 242 Food and Nutritional Health, 3 credits
- NUT SCI 250 World Food and Population Issues, 3 credits
- NUT SCI 300 Human Nutrition, 3 credits
- NUT SCI 302 Ethnic Influences on Nutrition, 3 credits
Phases of Development: 9 credits
Core Phases of Development, 9 credits:
- HUM DEV 331 Infancy and Early Childhood, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 332 Middle Childhood and Adolescence, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 343 Adulthood and Aging, 3 credits
Advanced Coursework: Minimum of 15 credits
Advanced Developmental Research Methods, minimum of one course:
- HUM DEV 302 Developmental Research Methods, 3 credits
Family and Relationships, choose minimum of one course:
- HUM DEV 345 Human Sexuality, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 353 Family Development, 3 credits
Gender and Cultural Diversity, choose minimum of one course:
- HUM DEV 336 Gender Development Across the Lifespan, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 342 Cross-Cultural Human Development, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 345 Human Sexuality, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 346 Culture, Development and Health, 3 credits
Advanced Specialization in Lifespan Development, choose minimum of one course:
- HUM DEV 344 Dying, Death, and Loss, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 350 Developmental Psychobiology, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 424 The Development of Creative and Critical Thinking, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 443 Spirituality and Development, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 497 Internship, 3 credits (only)
Additional elective credits can be taken from the upper-level Human Development courses listed above.
One of these is encouraged, but does not count toward major requirements:
- HUM DEV 478 Honors in the Major, 3 credits
- HUM DEV 495 Teaching Assistantship, 1-6 credits
- HUM DEV 496 Research Assistantship, 1-6 credits
- HUM DEV 498 Independent Study, 1-4 credits