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HDSP 411
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE FAMILY Conceptual and theoretical perspectives on family research on inter-generational influences and relationships in families across the lifespan. |
| HDSP 412 | COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND LABOR RELATIONS IN EDUCATION Labor-management relations in the educational setting. |
| HDSP 414 | CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN THE STUDY OF LIVES Theoretical roots and methodological implications of current approaches to the study of lives. Issues of continuity and discontinuity; micro and macro levels of analysis; “objective” and “subjective” accounts. |
| HDSP 415 | UNDERSTANDING THE PERSON Psychological ways to comprehend persons in social and historical context. Personality functioning, dynamics and adjustment from psychoanalytic, psychosocial, cognitive, behavioral, humanistic and narrative perspectives. |
| HDSP 416 | FAMILIES AND SCHOOLING Theory and research on family influences on achievement development; models of the home learning environment; parent involvement in schools. |
| HDSP 418 | ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION Legislation, policy and administrative procedures regarding budgets, tax levy, school bonds, insurance, state aid and accounting. |
| HDSP 420 | THE AGING SOCIETY AND SOCIAL POLICY Impetus for, rationale behind and assumptions underlying federal aging policy. Impact of different social policies on adult socialization and development. |
| HDSP 427 | SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY Conflicts between offering opportunity to youth and societal imperatives for selecting and preparing youth for future careers; how society and schools deal with this conflict. Approaches to policy reform. |
| HDSP 429 | SOCIAL-COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS Design and implementation of social systems interventions in organizations and communities, especially preventive applications in human service agencies and institutions. |
| HDSP 434 | POVERTY AND PUBLIC POLICY Contemporary issues in urban poverty, including analysis of employment training, education reform, economic development and government transfer and tax policies. The interconnected nature of institutional, economic, political and social efforts toward urban reform. |
| HDSP 440 | THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC POLICY Framework for understanding the structure and process of development. How existing social policies can be analyzed and new policies developed. |
| HDSP 442 | SYSTEMATICALLY COLLECTED DATA AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO POLICY Identification of national, state and local databases relevant to policy: their content, statistical quality and accessibility assessment. Selection and use of databases for policy development, analysis and evaluation. |
| HDSP 443 | PHILOSOPHICAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF POLICY Philosophical and historical roots of language used to describe issues in social policy. Topics include client self-determination versus professional autonomy, appropriate levels of financial support for the poor, state intervention and the balance between liberty and social justice. |
| HDSP 444 | LAW, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL POLICY Legal context of education and social policy. Legislation, case law and regulations at state and federal levels relevant to the organization and operation of schools: civil rights, teacher employment relations, tort liability, church/state/school issues and emerging problems in educational policy analysis. |
| HDSP 445 | EDUCATION AND WORK (1) Changes in the employment system and postsecondary education in the United States; relationship between education and work in the United States and in various countries. |
| HDSP 451 | TOPICS IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL POLICY Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with change of topic |
| HDSP 462-1,2 | STUDYING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT |
| Coun Psy 421 | ADULT DEVELOPMENT AND WORK CAREERS Psychological conceptions of adult development and the social environment. Influence of families, schools and work institutions on adult development. |