Fall 2019 Courses
HDF 380K.1 Research Methods in Human Development & Family Sciences
Meets Wednesdays, 2:00-5:00, in GEA 403. Taught by Dr. Edward Anderson for two lecture hours and one and one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester. This course is a basic methods course designed to acquaint students with the range of methods used in child development and relationship research. The course provides students with the foundation to become an independent scientist and to develop a research proposal. Students will be introduced to concepts in ethics, measurement, design, sampling, and data analysis.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in human development and family sciences, or graduate standing and consent of instructor.
HDF 394.5 Graduate Seminar: Immigration and the Family
Meets Wednesdays, 9:00-12:00, in SEA 2.406. Taught by Dr. Su Yeong Kim for three lecture hours a week for one semester. This course is part of required electives of the HDFS Graduate Program. 394 courses are topical seminars offered each semester. This course examines the theories of child development and cultural psychology as it applies to the development of minority children in the contexts of family, school, neighborhood, and society.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in human development and family sciences, or graduate standing and consent of instructor.
HDF 395.4 Formation and Development of Intimate Relationships
Meets Mondays, 1:00-4:00, in SEA 1.438. Taught by Dr. Lisa Neff for three lecture hours a week for one semester. The 395 courses teach the research and theory of the interplay between individual development, family relationships, and institutions and relationships outside the family. This course focuses on dating and marital relationships, with an emphasis on how relationships change over time. Subjects include attraction, relationship initiation and formation, relationship maintenance processes and relationship dissolution.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in human development and family sciences, or graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Spring 2020 Courses
HDF 380K.2 Foundational Statistics and Nested Models
Meets Monday, 1:00-4:00, in SEA 1.438. Taught by Dr. Sae Han for two lecture hours and one and one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester. This course focuses on data organization and statistics used in the social behavioral sciences. It begins with a review of basic data management, inferential statistics, graphing, advanced regression, and ANOVA, then concludes with an introduction into the analysis of nested data.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in human development and family sciences, or graduate standing and consent of instructor.
HDF 380K.4 Advanced Regression and Structural Models
Meets Wednesday, 9:00-12:00, in GEA 247. Taught by Dr. aprile benner for two lecture hours and one and one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester. This course introduces students to advanced statistical analyses using latent variables, a sophisticated analytic approach known as structural equation modeling (SEM). A primary focus of the course is to bridge technical and analytic elements of SEM with practical applications.
Prerequisite: It is strongly recommended that students have had at least one other graduate statistical course before taking this course, but not required. Graduate standing in human development and family sciences, or graduate standing and consent of instructor.
HDF 394 Lifespan and Adult Development
Meets Wednesday, 1:00-4:00, in SEA 1.438. Taught by Dr. Liz Munoz for three lecture hours a week for one semester. The focus of this seminar will be to examine psychosocial and contextual influences on adult development and aging. We will discuss topics from a lifespan perspective related to the influence of early life factors on adulthood and aging. Example topics include the relationship between early childhood environments and health in adulthood, and how social and psychosocial experiences shape late-life outcomes among racial and ethnic minorities.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in human development and family sciences, or graduate standing and consent of instructor.
