HDFS at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate HDFS coursework.

• HDFS 408Hospitalized Childrenopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• HDFS 290Intro to Research Methodsopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• HDFS 383Level 3 Infant Toddler Development for Care Providersopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• PSYC 216Child Psychopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• HDFS 301Infancy & Early Childhoodopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HDFS 384Level 4 Infant Toddler Development for Care Providersopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate HDFS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 41 HDFS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 46 more HDFS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on HDFS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in HDFS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at HDFS 385

  1. HDFS 382Level 2 Infant Toddler Development for Care Providers
  2. HDFS 383Level 3 Infant Toddler Development for Care Providers
  3. HDFS 384Level 4 Infant Toddler Development for Care Providers
  4. HDFS 385Level 5 Infant Toddler Development for Care Providers

• 4 courses deep, ending at HDFS 401

  1. PSYC 100Intro Psych
  2. PSYC 216Child Psych
  3. HDFS 301Infancy & Early Childhood

• 3 courses deep, ending at HDFS 445

  1. HDFS 105Intro to Human Development
  2. HDFS 290Intro to Research Methods
  3. HDFS 445Substance Use and Family Health

• 3 courses deep, ending at HDFS 508

  1. HDFS 105Intro to Human Development
  2. HDFS 408Hospitalized Children
  3. HDFS 508Ethics in the Helping Professions

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HDFS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HDFS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

HDFS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UIUC campus feed.