Human Development Minor Degree Requirements


Human Development Minor ~ Degree Requirements

Credits Required

Total credits in the minor: 12-14

Credits at CSUMB: 12

Prerequisites

None

Outcomes, Courses, and Assessment

You must achieve each of the Learning Outcomes designated below by successfully completing the listed courses or alternative assessment options.

LO 1 Theories of Development ~ Students understand and utilize the major theories of human development and distinguish major psychological, cognitive, emotional, physical, and environmental changes that take place over the lifespan.

  • Complete HDEV 360 
  • If student completed HDEV 260 or community college equivalent, select an additional course from MLO II

LO 2 Focused Developmental Application ~ Students refine theoretical understanding of developmental inquiry to a specific phase in the lifespan, and explore the influences of race, gender, ethnicity, culture, personal history, and socioeconomics on individual development.

Complete two (or three, if HDEV 260 was completed) of the following: 
HDEV 355; HDEV 356; HDEV 365; HDEV 366; HDEV 371; HDEV 395

LO 3 Situated Environments of Development ~ Students contextualize developmental issues within a cross-disciplinary and macro-level framework.