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- HD 101 - Introduction to Human Development Across the Lifespan (3 Units)Provides an overview of human lifespan development, covering physical, cognitive, social, and emotional aspects from prenatal through late adulthood. Introduces insights from interdisciplinary fields, including anthropology, biology, psychology, and sociology, to offer a holistic understanding of human development across the lifespan.
May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: ID 170-1.
Satisfies GE area: D7 - HD 102 - Preparatory Skills for Human Development Majors (3 Units)Develops competencies that support long-term professional success and provides an early start on the process of career planning and development. Places particular emphasis on exploring career opportunities in health, human services and allied fields; building skills for success in the HD major and after graduation; and applying competencies to address long-term professional development needs. Includes values clarification, goal setting, problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making.
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to Human Development majors. - HD 170 - Topics in Human Development (1-3 Units)Selected topics in Human Development.
May be repeated for a total of twelve (12) units as topics change. Credit may not be counted toward the Human Development major. Students should check the Class Schedule for the listing of actual topics. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of the instructor. - HD 220 - Statistics in Human Development (3 Units)Focus on statistical analysis and application in health and human services, including quantitative research methods, frequency distributions and graphs, relative measures and normative distribution, correlation and regression, sampling and hypothesis testing, one- and two-sample t-tests, analysis of variance, two-way analysis of variance, repeated measures analysis of variance, and chi-square. Includes hands-on experience with research scenarios, statistical software, electronic databases, and report writing.
- HD 230 - Research Methods in Human Development (3 Units)Introduction to research methods and their application in social research. Subjects include: research ethics; research design; conceptualization, operationalization and measurement; indexes, scales and typologies; sampling approaches; experimental designs; survey approaches; qualitative field research; unobtrusive research; evaluation research; qualitative data analysis; and reading and writing social research.
May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: HD 170-3.
Prerequisite(s): HD 220 - HD 231 - Action Research in Human Development (3 Units)
Focuses on methods for conducting action research in social settings and guided by information gathering, planning, intervention, and evaluation. Emphasis on applied research methods for improving personal practice, human services delivery, educational practice, departmental operations, organizational effectiveness, and community well-being. Students will be expected to identify a topic of interest and write an action-oriented research proposal.
Prerequisite(s): HD 220 - HD 301 - Theories of Human Development (3 Units)
Survey theories in human development (drawn primarily from psychology, sociology, biology and anthropology) and focuses on their application in understanding social problems and issues, and their use in the development and delivery of human services.
Recommended Preparation: HD 230 and HD 231Prerequisite(s): HD 101
- HD 302 - Human Development in Childhood (3 Units)
Explores child development from lifespan, interdisciplinary, and multicultural perspectives useful for working with children. A special focus is on practicing the skills to conduct a community needs assessment for healthy child development.
Recommended Preparation: HD 230 and HD 231
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): HD 301
- HD 303 - Human Development in Adolescence (3 Units)
Explores adolescent development from lifespan, interdisciplinary, and multicultural perspectives useful for working with adolescents. A special focus is on practicing the skills to implement and evaluate a community intervention program for healthy adolescent development.
Recommended Preparation: HD 230 and HD 231
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): HD 301 - HD 304 - Human Development in Adulthood (3 Units)
Explores healthy adult development from lifespan, interdisciplinary, multicultural and ecological perspectives useful in working with young, middle-aged, and older adults. Involves writing a full proposal for a community intervention program that addresses the needs of those in the adult stage of development.
Recommended Preparation: HD 230 and HD 231Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): HD 301
- HD 305 - Administration in Human Service Settings (3 Units)
Examines theories and research in the effective management and administration of human service organizations. Includes ethics, confidentiality, funding and grant-writing, licensure, decision-making and leadership, personnel management, public relations, and program evaluation.
Recommended Preparation: HD 230 and HD 231. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: HD 300.
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to Junior or Senior standing.
Prerequisite(s): HD 101 - HD 350 - Health and Human Development (3 Units)Focuses on the intersection between health issues and human development across the lifespan. Explores health issues as they relate to points of human development, health policy, health promotion, prevention, wellness and disease across the lifespan. Includes a discussion of developmental, family and lifespan influences on health including health issues and explores culture as it relates to these topics. Gives students interested in health care careers essential knowledge to provide effective health services.
May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: HD 370-1.
Prerequisite(s): HD 101, and PSYC 100 or HD 102 - HD 351 - Health Disparities in Human Development (3 Units)
Focus on the factors associated with health disparities across various populations and several underserved populations in the U.S. Includes health policy, healthcare modalities, access to resources, structural inequality, and the socio-cultural factors associated with etiology, treatment and well-being.
- HD 360 - Effective Counseling Interventions Across the Lifespan (3 Units)Provides a foundation in the theory of counseling and effective components of evidence-based interventions. Students will become familiar with empirically supported relationship variables that are critical to counseling interactions, evidence-based approaches to counseling across the lifespan, and specific strategies integral to these interventions. The impact of development and socio-cultural forces will be discussed. A scientific, theory-based approach to counseling, emphasizing the integration of research and clinical work, using a developmental framework, will be used.
May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: HD 370-2.
Prerequisite(s): HD 101, and PSYC 100 or HD 102 - HD 361 - Introduction to Interpersonal, Interviewing, and Interaction Skills (3 Units)
- HD 369 - Behavioral and Mental Health Care and Development (3 Units)
Examines secondary trauma and trauma-informed care, advanced crisis management and suicide prevention, abnormal psychology, neurodivergence, disability approaches, and substance use disorder. Develops skills in suicide impact assessments and crisis intervention. Prepares students for roles in behavioral health and wellness coaching, emphasizing culturally relevant and trauma-informed practices.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): HD 360 - HD 370 - Advanced Topics in Human Development (1-3 Units)Selected topics in Human Development.
May be repeated for a total of twelve (12) units as topics change. Students should check the Class Schedule for the listing of actual topics. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200, HD 101, HD 102. Also HD 230 or HD 231 - HD 380 - Child and Youth Development in Family and Community Contexts (3 Units)
Considers the social cultural, cognitive, emotional, linguistic, and behavioral development of children and youth from interdisciplinary, multicultural, and applied perspectives. Students will apply major theories in the field of human development to their work in evidence-based services and programs for children and youth in a variety of family and community contexts with special attention to identifying multicultural and sociocultural influences on development.
May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: HD 370-3, EDUC 380
Prerequisite(s): HD 101, and PSYC 100 or HD 102
Satisfies GE area: UD4 - HD 381 - Youth Violence: A Cultural and Interdisciplinary Understanding (3 Units)
Explores and develops the epidemiology, etiology, prevention and intervention of violence among multicultural youth. Examines the role of social, psychological and cultural factors in youth violence. Readings and lectures reflect knowledge coming from such disciplines as public health, sociology, psychology and anthropology. The class will visit, assess and contribute knowledge helpful to a local violence prevention program, which works with multicultural youth affected by violence.
May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: HD 370-6
Prerequisite(s): HD 101, and PSYC 100 or HD 102 - HD 382 - Anti-Racism, Social Justice, and Human Development (3 Units)
Explores contemporary social justice issues affecting human development and their implication for counselors and other health and human service providers. Examines how racism and other systems of oppression operate on individual, institutional, and social/cultural levels; depend on historical legacies embedded in institutions; and persist through individuals’ socialization and participation. Develops critical awareness, knowledge, and skills for analyzing power structures, reflecting on one’s own social identities and positionality, and challenging supremacist ideologies. Considers theories and practical applications for social change and collective liberation.
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students with Junior or Senior standing.
Satisfies Diversity & Equity area: DEu - HD 383 - Perspectives on Children, Youth and Families (3 Units)
Reviews interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives on the importance of psychosocial, cultural, ecological, economic and historical factors affecting the ability of families to nurture the healthy development of children and youth. Knowledge of the importance of such factors will be used to learn about the development of effective programs and policies for families and their members. Covers assets- and resilience-based perspectives.
- HD 384 - Social and Public Policy in Human Development (3 Units)
A critical analysis of the contemporary and historical importance of social and public policies and their relevance to the development of health and human services programs. Explores social, cultural, and economic groups across the life-span. Reviews the historical development of social and public policy in the U.S. as it pertains to health and human services.
- HD 385 - Ecological Systems Perspectives on Human Development (3 Units)Explores the dynamic nature of human development with special attention to the evolving human organism and the multiple systems that make up the individual’s environment. Examines development processes across the lifespan within contexts of families, communities, complex organizations, social- political institutions, cultures and history. Identification of potential strategies to optimize well-being and development for diverse individuals, families, groups, or communities will be explored.
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to Human Development majors with Junior or Senior standing.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200, HD 101 , HD 102, HD 301. Also HD 230 or HD 231 - HD 386 - Human Development in a Global Context (3 Units)
Introduces contemporary issues of injustice regarding how individuals’ experiences of being oppressed affect their healthy human development from a global perspective. By focusing on age, gender, socioeconomic status, and the intersectionality of these social categories, students examine how individuals’ social advantages or disadvantages cumulatively increase over the lifespan and discuss possible action plans as individuals to alleviate health disparities in a global community.
May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: HD 370-8
Prerequisite(s): HD 101
Satisfies Diversity & Equity area: DEg - HD 393 - Wellness Coach Field Practicum I (3 Units)
Provides experience delivering services, primarily but not limited to youth (ages 0-25), which may include wellness promotion and education, behavioral health screening, individual and group support, care coordination, and/or crisis referral. Practicum experiences may be supervised by a Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) credentialed professional in school settings or a licensed behavioral health provider in community settings, comprising approximately 7-10 hours per week, for a minimum of 100 hours during the semester.
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to Human Development majors in the Counseling Services Concentration.
Prerequisite(s): HD 360, HD 361 - HD 490 - Human Development in Perspective (3 Units)
Culminating capstone course for Human Development students in their final year of undergraduate study. Draws from theories and knowledge gained from coursework in the major to help students apply such knowledge within allied health and human services fields.
Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to Human Development majors with Senior standing. - HD 494 - Wellness Coach Field Practicum II (3 Units)
Provides intermediate and advanced experience delivering services, primarily but not limited to youth (ages 0-25), which may include wellness promotion and education, behavioral health screening, individual and group support, care coordination, and/or crisis referral. Practicum experiences may be supervised by a Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) credentialed professional in school settings or a licensed behavioral health provider in community settings, comprising approximately 14-20 hours per week, for a minimum of 200 hours during the semester.
May be repeated for a total of six (6) units, but no more than three (3) units of credit may be applied toward the major. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to Human Development majors in the Counseling Services Concentration.
Prerequisite(s): HD 393 - HD 495 - Field Experience in Human Development (3 Units)
Supervised experience providing service in health and human services setting. Students will spend approximately eight (8) hours per week, for a minimum of 90 hours during the semester, in a child, adolescent and/or adult human services organization. Students will participate in service delivery, conduct observations, read related material and prepare written reports.
May be repeated for a total of six (6) units, but no more than three (3) units of credit may be applied toward the major. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to Human Development majors with Senior standing.
Prerequisite(s): Students must have completed a pre-course orientation offered the prior semester. - HD 497 - Applied Research in Human Development (4 Units)
Reviews the importance of theory, research objectives and various quantitative and qualitative methods. Students will be expected to participate in the development and implementation of an applied research study that they either initiate or is part of an ongoing research study. Students will be involved in data collection, data coding, data analysis and manuscript preparation.
Three hours of lecture. Three hours of laboratory. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to Human Development majors with Senior standing.
Prerequisite(s): HD 230 or HD 231 - HD 499A - Supervised Independent Study (1 Unit)Independent study deals with a special interest not covered in a regular course or with exploration in greater depth of a subject introduced in a regular course. Discussion in individual conferences.
May be repeated for a total of six 6 units of credit. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of instructor.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200, HD 101, HD 102, HD 230 or HD 230 - HD 499B - Supervised Independent Study (2 Units)Independent study deals with a special interest not covered in a regular course or with exploration in greater depth of a subject introduced in a regular course. Discussion in individual conferences.
May be repeated for a total of six 6 units of credit. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of instructor.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200, HD 101, HD 102, HD 230 or HD 230 - HD 499C - Supervised Independent Study (3 Units)Independent study deals with a special interest not covered in a regular course or with exploration in greater depth of a subject introduced in a regular course. Discussion in individual conferences.
May be repeated for a total of six 6 units of credit. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students who have obtained consent of instructor.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200, HD 101, HD 102, HD 230 or HD 230