Human Development Program

Undergraduate Program

• Major Requirements
  • Pre-HDP Requirements
  • Lower-Division
  • Upper-Division
  • Applying for the Major
• Minor Requirements
  • Minor Requirements
  • Lower-Division
  • Upper-Division
• Research Opportunities
  • Field Research
  • Independent Study
  • Advanced Research
  • Honors Program
  • HDP 199 Opportunities
• Honors Program
• Study Abroad
• Transfer Students
• Petitioning Courses
• Career Information
• Resources

Lower-Division Requirements for Pre-HDP Majors

• HDP 1 must be taken in residence and is only offered during the fall.
• All courses must be taken for a letter grade; pass grades are not accepted.
• All lower-division coursework must be completed with a grade of C or better; C- grades are not accepted.
• The GPA of the eight lower-division courses must equal or exceed 2.75.

• 1. One Introduction to Human Development Course
• 2. One Statistics Course
• 3. One Formal Skills Course
• 4 & 5. Two Biological Science Courses
• 6 & 7. Two Social Science Courses
• 8. One Computer Literacy Course

HDP 1 - Introduction to Human Development

(0ffered only once per year, in fall)

2. Statistics

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One course selected from the following approved list:

PSYC 60 - Introduction to Statistics

COGS 14 - Design and Analysis of Experiments

BIEB 100 - Biometry

ECON 120 - Econometrics A

POLI 30 - Political Inquiry

MATH 11 - Elementary Probability and Statistics

3. Formal Skills

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One course selected from the following approved list:

PHIL 10 - Introduction to Logic

PHIL 12 - Logic and Decision Making

LIGN 17 - Making and Breaking Codes

Or one course selected from the MATH 10 or MATH 20 sequence

MATH 10 (A, B or C) - Calculus

Math 20 (A, B or C) - Calculus for Science and Engineering

4 & 5. Biological Science

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Two courses selected from the following approved list:

ANTH 2 - Human Origins (formerly ANLD 2)

BILD 1 - The Cell

BILD 2 - Multicellular Life

BILD 3 - Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

BILD 7 - The Beginning of Life

BILD 10 - Fundamental Concepts of Modern Biology

BILD 12 - Neurobiology and Behavior

BILD 18 - Human Impact on the Environment

BILD 20 - Human Genetics in Modern Society

BILD 26 - Human Physiology

COGS 11 - Introduction to Cognitive Science: Minds and Brains

COGS 17 - Neurobiology of Cognition

PSYC 2 - General Psychology: Biological Foundations

6 & 7. Social Science

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Two courses selected from the following approved list:

ANTH 1 - Introduction to Culture (formerly ANLD 1)

ANTH 3 - World Prehistory (formerly ANLD 3)

COGN 20 - Introduction to Communication

COGS 1 - Introduction to Cognitive Science

HILD 7A, B, or C - Race and Ethnicity in the United States (only one can be used)

LIGN 4 - Language as a Cognitive System

LIGN 7 - Sign Language and Its Culture

LIGN 8 - Languages and Cultures in America

LIGN 101 - Introduction to the Study of Language

MMW 1 - Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization

MMW 2 - The Great Classical Traditions

PSYC 1 - Psychology

PSYC 3 - General Psychology: Cognitive Foundations

PSYC 6 - General Psychology: Social Foundations

SOCL 1A - The Study of Society

SOCL 20 - Social Change in the Modern World

8. Computer Literacy

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One course selected from the following approved list:

COGS 3 - An Introduction to Computing

COGS 8 - Hands-on Computing

COGS 18 - Introduction to Programming for Cognitive Science

CSE 3 - Fluency in Information Technology

CSE 5A - Introduction to Programming I

CSE 11 - Introduction to Computer Science and Object-Oriented Programming: Java

MAE 5 - Quantitative Computer Skills

For course descriptions please refer to the UCSD Catalog.