Apr 05, 2025  
2022-2023 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    

HDEV 301 - Theories of Human Development


Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: Social Justice Overlay
Critical review of major theoretical approaches to human development from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Prerequisites: Junior, senior or post-baccalaureate standing.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
 

  1. Draw from human development theoretical perspectives and analyze issues of social justice and equity.

  2. Apply analytic skills that identify injustice and ways to combat it.

  3. Understand the ways in which theories of human development inform social justice movements locally, nationally and globally.



Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
Social Justice Overlay #1: Use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity.​
Social Justice Overlay #2: Describe the challenges to achieving social justice.
Social Justice Overlay #3: Identify ways which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, and/or the world.



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