Education and Human Development, Human Development and Family Relations BA

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Introduction

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The School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) offers a number of exciting and innovative undergraduate programs that prepare professionals to work with children, families and communities. SEHD prepares highly successful teachers within an innovative, rigorous and highly supported teacher education program. CU Denver prepares teachers to have deep content knowledge and a strong sense of connection to children and families in diverse communities; and, we provide our students with teaching tools drawn from cutting-edge research in teaching and learning.

Program Delivery

This is an on-campus program with a variety of delivery options for many of our courses including hybrid, evening, weekend and online courses.

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General Requirements

To earn a degree, students must satisfy all requirements in each of the three areas below, in addition to their individual major requirements.

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Program Requirements

Students must complete a total of 126 semester hours for the EDHD - Human Development and Family Relations Track
A minimum GPA of 2.0 is required for all courses applying to EDHD - Human Development and Family Relations requirements.
Transfer courses must be approved by faculty and/or advisor to apply to the major.

Take 16 courses of the following Human Development and Family Relations major courses:

Note: New courses are being created on an ongoing basis for this major. Please see an advisor for updates to this list.
EDFN 1000 - Equality, Rights & Education (required)
HDFR 2000 - Introduction to Family and Community Services (required)
HDFR 2200 - Love, Family and Human Development (required)
HDFR 3002 - Preparing to be a HDFR Professional (required)
HDFR 1010 - Life Span Development in Ecological Settings
HDFR 3250 - Families in Global Perspectives
HDFR 3400 - Love, Couples and Family
HDFR 4000 - Human Sexuality
HDFR 4001 - Families and Parenting
HDFR 4002 - Family Life and Community Programming I
HDFR 4003 - Leadership and Organizations
HDFR 4004 - Family and Comm. Prog. II Grant Writing/Fundraising
HDFR 4010 - Family and Cultural Diversity
HDFR 4075 - Family Policy & Law
HDFR 4080 - Global Family Resource Management
HDFR 4090 - Helping Profession Skills in HDFR
HDFR 4888 - LGBTQ Family Systems
RSEM 4120 - Introduction to Research Methods
Take one of the following Human Development and Learning courses:

Note: New courses are being created on an ongoing basis for this major. Please see an advisor for updates to this list.
HDFR 1000 - Global Human Development & Learning
HDFR 2110 - Child Ecology
HDFR 3100 - Adolescent Ecology
HDFR 4200 - Adult Ecology
Take one of the following Family Diversity courses:

Note: New courses are being created on an ongoing basis for this major. Please see an advisor for updates to this list.
HDFR 1020 - Black and Latino Children
HDFR 1030 - Who am I? Cultural Identity, Family, Diverse Soc Sys
HDFR 4040 - Latino Families in School and Communities
HDFR 4045 - Abuelos (Grandparents) Latino Families
Take five semester hours of practicum:
HDFR 4910 - Practicum
Take thirty semester hours from at least one of the following Human Development and Family Relations concentration areas:
- Bilingual (Spanish) Family and Community Services
- Ecology of Human Development and Learning
- Educational Foundations and Social Justice
- Leadership and Community Based Organizations
- Pre-Higher Education and Student Affairs
- Pre-Individual, Couple and Family Counseling
- Early Childhood Development
- Family Gerontology
Additional General Electives hours may be needed to reach the required 126 hours for the BA.