Seminar designed to introduce incoming majors to college expectations and skills, and to concepts and practices of Human Development & Family Science and critically thinking about these concepts and practices. Prerequisite: Human Development and Family Science major. Pre/Co-requisites: HDF 1050.
A comprehensive survey of life span individual and family development within social and historical context.
Experiential learning course focused on self-exploration work with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen community. Students will be asked to engage in community so as to explore the role that community serves in support of self and others. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Sexual responsibility and the biological, social, psychological growth, and development of human beings in terms of sex role identity.
Introduces Bowlby's attachment theory as a framework for understanding human development. Through readings, lectures, and critical reflection activities, explores the cross-cultural differences as well as the transcultural and foundational nature of early relationships, their intergenerational transmission, and their impact on later relationships and development (including developmental trauma). Prerequisite: HDF 1050 or HDF 1600.
Introductory examination of white identity development and white identity development models from an ecological perspective. Prerequisites: HDF 1050 or HDF 1600; Minimum Sophomore standing.
Developmental ecological approach to analysis of social institutions as influences on human development. Focus on education, community, health care, and social services. Prerequisites: HDF 1600; Minimum Sophomore standing.
Undergraduate student work on individual or small team research projects under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion. Prerequisites: Minimum Sophomore standing; minimum of 6 credits in HDF or related field; Instructor permission.
Examines the complexities of power, conflict, and violence in close relationships, families, and other interpersonal contexts throughout the lifespan by analyzing scholarly and popular knowledge about power and violence in interpersonal relationships. Prerequisites: HDF 2009, HDF 2610, HDF 2890, minimum Junior standing.
Lectures, laboratories, readings, or projects relating to contemporary areas of study. Enrollment may be more than once, accumulation up to twelve hours.
Undergraduate student work on individual or small team research projects under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion. Prerequisites: Minimum Junior standing; HDF 2610, HDF 2890, Instructor permission.
On-site supervised work experience combined with a structured academic learning plan directed by a faculty member or a faculty-staff team in which a faculty member is the instructor of record, for which academic credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion. Prerequisites: HDF 1650, HDF 2009, HDF 2205, HDF 2410, HDF 2610, HDF 2890; HDF 2010 or CNSL 2010; Senior standing; Instructor permission based on consultation with program faculty.