Human Development Minor ~ Degree Requirements

Credits Required

Total credits in the minor: 12

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.

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 one of the following: 
    HDEV 356 Infancy and Early Childhood
    HDEV 365 Adolescence
    HDEV 366 Observation and Assessment of Children
    HDEV 371 Adulthood and Aging
    HDEV 395 Special Topics in Human Development

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

  • Complete one of the following:
    CHHS 450 Health and Social Policy Analysis
    GS 350 Gender and Violence in Global Life
    GS 360 Intercultural Communication
    HCOM 306 Gender and Communication
    HCOM 348 Race, Colonialism, and Film
    HCOM 328 Latina Life Stories
    HPWE 363 Human Sexuality
    HPWE 376 Physical Education for Children w/Disabilities
    HPWE 377 Neurological Impairment;
    HPWE 464 Patterns and Dynamics in Relationships
    MPA 301 Music for Children
    SBS 345 Intro to Cultural Anthropology
    SBS 384S Cultural Contexts of Bilingual Education: An Overview of Values, Contents and Experiences on Education in Mexico and the United States
    TAT 332 Teledramatic Arts and Technology for Teaching
    VPA 307 Diverse History in Contemporary Art
    VPA 308 Ways of Seeing
    VPA 312 Visual Arts for Teaching