Human Development and Psychology

Additional courses

In addition to their HDP distributional requirements, HDP students are required to complete three additional courses that focus on Human Development and Psychology.

The following list of courses includes many courses students complete to fulfill their additional HDP course requirement. Please note: students are not limited to choose three courses from this list, and may petition to enroll in other HDP-related HGSE courses, Harvard University cross-registered courses, and field experience placements to count toward this course requirement.

HGSE Courses Focused on Human Development and Psychology

• A-809 Health and International Education (not offered, 2009-10)
• AH-120 Public Policy and Child Development: U.S. and International Perspectives (spring, Yoshikawa)
• AH-400 American Dilemmas: Everyday Struggles over Race and Equality in U.S. Education (not offered, 2009-10)
• H-137 Emotional Development: Biology, Relationships, Culture (fall, Fischer)
• H-175 *Good Work in Education: When Excellence, Engagement and Ethics Meet (spring, Gardner)
• H-236 Adolescent Development: Psychosocial Implications for School Practice and Community Partnerships (spring, Hill)
• H-250 Developmental Psychology: Psychology of Early Childhood (fall, Harris)
• H-304 Legal and Ethical Issues in Child Advocacy (not offered, 2009-10)
• H-310Z Educating for Democracy through Facing History and Ourselves (spring, Selman)
• H-311 *Cross-Cultural Issues in Counseling and Advocacy (spring, Kim)
• H-326 Effective Interventions and School Reforms for At-Risk Children (not offered 2009-10)
• H-327 *Individual Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (spring, Zeller)
• H-331 *Risk and Resilience in Social Contexts from Birth to Young Adulthood: Strategies of Prevention and Intervention (year-long, 4 credits, Jones)
• H-340 *Preventative and Developmental Group Counseling (fall, Kim)
• H-341 Inventing the Future: Building Connections from School to Career (spring, Savitz-Romer)
• H-371 *Theories and Methods of Child/Adolescent Cognitive and Psychological Assessment (spring, Gortych)
• H-382 The Problems Kids Have: Developmental, Cultural, and Contextual Perspectives on Risk and Resilience (fall, Feigenberg)
• H-514 Comparative Perspectives on Immigration and Education Policy (spring, Louie)
• H-525 Immigration, Education, and Identities in the United States (fall, Louie)
• H-603 Educating for Civic Responsibility (not offered 2009-10)
• H-700 From Language to Literacy (fall, Uccelli)
• H-804 Writing Development (not offered, 2009-10)
• H-810C Literacy and Content Learning in Middle and Secondary Schools (spring, Jacobs)
• H-810F *Children's Literature (fall, Robinson)
• H-810G *Adolescent Literature (fall, Robinson)
• H-818 *Reading Instruction and Development (fall, Mason)
• H-860 *Reading Difficulties (spring, Thomson)
• H-870 *Reading Comprehension (spring, Uccelli)
• HT-100 Cognitive Development, Education, and the Brain (year-long, Fischer,)
• HT-500 Growing Up in a Media World (fall, Blatt)
• HT-820 *Introduction to Psychoeducational Assessment (not offered 2009-10)
• T-006 Adult Development (spring, Kegan)
• T-405 Social Dimensions of Teaching and Learning (fall, Gehlbach)
• T-605 The Work of Jean Piaget (not offered 2009-10)