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2018-2019 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

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2018-2019 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Human Development, B.A.

Requirements

Lower Division:

Take 9 units from the following:

* “C” or better required
HDEV 180 - Lifespan Human Development (3 units)
ANTH 120 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3 units)
* “C” or better required
PSY 100 - General Psychology (3 units)
* “C” or better required
SOC 100 - Principles of Sociology (3 units)
* “C” or better required

Core Courses (30 units):

Take all of the following courses:

HDEV 190 - Elementary Statistics in Social and Behavioral Sciences (4 units) or PSY 110 or SOC 170
HDEV 307 - Approaches to Childhood (3 units)
HDEV 320 - Research Methods in Human Development (4 units)
HDEV 327 - Approaches to Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood (3 units)
HDEV 357 - Approaches to Adulthood Through Aging (3 units)
HDEV 470 - Seminar/Practicum (4 units)

Take one of the following courses:

HDEV 340 - Families and Work: Life Course Processes (3 units)
HDEV 360 - Cultural Foundations for Human Development (3 units)

Take one of the following courses:

Take 3 more upper division units in HDEV earning a “C” or better.

Take 3 units from the following foundation area:

Biological:

ANTH 315 - Human Variation (3 units)
ANTH 319 - Human Growth and Development (3 units)
ANTH 435 - Human Evolution (3 units)
BIOL 301 - Biology of Human Aging (3 units)
GERN 430 - Aging and Dementia (3 units)
GERN 439 - Nutrition and Aging (3 units)
GERN 482 - Health Assessment of the Aging Client (3 units)
H SC 333 - Latino Nutrition, Health and Chronic Disease Prevention (3 units)
H SC 420 - Global Health (3 units)
H SC 421 - Health Behavior (3 units)
H SC 422 - Environmental Health (3 units)
H SC 425 - Human Sexuality and Sex Education (3 units)
BIOL 300 - Human Immunology: In Self-Defense (3 units)
NUTR 439 - Nutrition and Aging (3 units)
PSY 241 - Psychobiology (3 units)

Take 3 units from either of the following foundation areas:

Psychological:

CDFS 311 - Prenatal Development and Infancy (3 units)
CDFS 411 - Individual Child Study and Guidance (3 units)
GERN 400 - Perspectives on Gerontology (3 units)
GERN 430 - Aging and Dementia (3 units)
HDEV 300 - Death and Dying (3 units)
HDEV 375 - Everyday Ruptures: Risk & Resilience in Human Development (3 units)
PSY 350 - Psychology and Contemporary Social Issues (3 units)
PSY 351 - Social Psychology (3 units)
PSY 354 - Psychology of Women (3 units)
PSY 356 - Personality (3 units)
PSY 362 - Autism Spectrum Disorders (3 units)
PSY 363 - Developmental Psychopathology (3 units)
PSY 370 - Abnormal Psychology (3 units)
PSY 375 - Community Psychology (3 units)
PSY 378 - Health Psychology (3 units)
SOC 335 - Social Psychology (3 units)

Sociocultural:

ANTH 351 - Sex Roles and Culture (3 units)
ANTH 412 - Culture and Communication (3 units)
ANTH 419 - Encounters and Identities (3 units)
ANTH 421 - Education Across Cultures (3 units)
ANTH 454 - Culture and Aging (3 units)
ANTH 475 - Language and Gender in Cross‑Cultural Perspective (3 units)
ASAM 340 - Asian American Family (3 units)
ASAM 381 - Asian American Women (3 units)
CDFS 413 - Child and Family in the Community (3 units)
CHLS 340 - Latino Education in the U.S. (3 units)
CHLS 341 - Asian American and Chicano/Latino Cinema (3 units)
CHLS 415 - Latina Women in the United States (3 units)
CWL 315 - Literature and Medicine (3 units)
GERN 400 - Perspectives on Gerontology (3 units)
GERN 469 - Disability, Culture and Society: Issues and Intervention (3 units)
GERN 474 - Global Aging (3 units)
HDEV 205 - Immigrant Youth in Long Beach (3 units)
HDEV 300 - Death and Dying (3 units)
HDEV 305 - Life Course and Generation in the Arab World (3 units)
HDEV 340 - Families and Work: Life Course Processes (3 units)
HDEV 360 - Cultural Foundations for Human Development (3 units)
HDEV 375 - Everyday Ruptures: Risk & Resilience in Human Development (3 units)
HDEV 403 - The Acquisition of Culture: Socialization in Cross-cultural Perspective (3 units)
HDEV 404 - Living and Dying in a Digital Age (3 units)
HDEV 407 - Cultural Perspectives on Child & Adolescent Mental Health (3 units)
LING 329 - Introduction to Language Acquisition (3 units)
LING 379 - Sociolinguistics (3 units)
LING 470 - Language and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3 units)
LING 472 - Language and Social Justice (3 units)
SOC 320 - Sociology of Families (3 units)
SOC 325 - Sociology of Gender (3 units)
SOC 345 - Youth, Policing, and Justice (3 units)
SOC 346 - Race, Gender and Class (3 units)
SOC 423 - Child Abuse and Prevention (3 units)
SOC 426 - Sociology of Sexualities (3 units)
SOC 464 - Aging and Society (3 units)
SOC 466 - AIDS and Society (3 units)
WGSS 320 - Latina Women in the United States (3 units)
WGSS 375 - Reproductive Justice (3 units)
WGSS 401 - Bodies and Borders: Feminism and Globalization (3 units)
WGSS 416 - Queering Gender (3 units)
WGSS 420 - Mothers and Daughters (3 units)
WGSS 475 - Language and Gender in Cross‑Cultural Perspective (3 units)

Note

Students must earn a grade of at least “C” in all upper division major courses.