To prepare for a career in teaching or to develop expertise in an area of human development and its related policy arenas, students are required to prepare an annotated Course Outline. The assignment asks students to design an integrative course they would want to teach and to develop a syllabus complete with topics, rationale and reading list. Examples of past Course Outlines are:
- Inventing Fatherhood: Social Policy Contexts of Providing and Caregiving
- Early Childhood Development and Public Policy: Child Care and Early Childhood Education Intervention in America
- Black Women's Influence on American Public Policy: Transforming Institutions and Protecting their Family's Well-Being
- Socioeconomic Resources, Families and Child Well-Being
- Digital Fluency, Policy and Development in the US
- The Role of Values in Social Policy
- Crime and the Life Course: Human Development and Antisocial Behavior
- Diversity Among the Aged: Its Impact on Social Policy