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 (fall, Jukes)
• AH-120 Public Policy and Child Development: U.S. and International Perspectives (not offered 2008-09)
• AH-400 American Dilemmas: Everyday Struggles over Race and Equality in U.S. Education (spring, Pollock)
• H-137 Emotional Development: Biology, Relationships, Culture (not offered 2008-09)
• H-175 *Good Workin Education: When Excellence, Engagement and Ethics Meet (spring, Gardner)
• H-203 Low-Income Children and Families: A Developmental Perspective (not offered 2008-09)
• H-210D Supporting Learning and Development after School: Research, Policy, and Practice (not offered 2008-09)
• H-217 Adolescent into Adult: Development through the College Years (not offered 2008-09)
• H-236 Adolescent Development: Psychosocial Implications for School Practice and Community Partnerships (spring, Rogers)
• H-250 Developmental Psychology: Psychology of Early Childhood (fall, Harris)
• H-304 Legal and Ethical Issues in Child Advocacy (spring, Murphy)
• H-310Z Educating for Democracy through Facing History and Ourselves (spring, Selman)
• H-311 *Approaches to Cross-Cultural Counseling: Working with Children and Families from Diverse Cultures (spring, Kim)
• H-315 Family Interventions to Address Depression and Loss (not offered 2008-09)
• H-326 Effective Interventions and School Reforms for At-Risk Children (not offered 2008-09)
• H-327 *Individual Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (fall, 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, Lem)
• H-382 The Problems Kids Have: Psychosocial, Developmental, and Biological Perspectives of Risk in School-Age Children (spring)
  
• H-525 Immigration, Education, and Identities in the United States (fall, Louie)
• H-603 Educating for Civic Responsibility (fall, Haste)
• H-605 The Work of Jean Piaget (not offered 2008-09)
• H-700 From Language to Literacy (fall, Pan, Uccelli)
• H-714 Language and Culture (not offered 2008-09)
• H-804 Writing Development (spring, Pan, Spencer)
• H-810C Reading, Writing, and Content Learning in Middle and Secondary Schools (spring, Jacobs)
• H-810F *Children's Literature (fall, Robinson)
• H-810G *Adolescent Literature (fall, Robinson)
• H-810W Language Minority Learners I: Literacy Development and Instruction (spring, Lesaux)
• H-810X Language Minority Learners II: The Social Context of Language Minority Learners (spring, Uccelli)
• 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, Rose)
• HT-500 Growing Up in a Media World (fall, Blatt)
• HT-820 *Introduction to Psychoeducational Assessment (fall, Thomson)
• T-006 Adult Development (spring, Kegan)
• T-405 Social Dimensions of Teaching and Learning (spring, Gehlbach)
• T-605 The Work of Jean Piaget (not offered 2008-09)