HDFS at Iowa State University

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 45 HDFS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 74 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.

• 5 courses deep, ending at HDFS 4560

  1. PSYCH 2300Developmental Psychology
  2. HDFS 2240Child Development
  3. HDFS 2240LChild Development Practicum
  4. HDFS 3400Infant-Toddler Curriculum and Assessment
  5. HDFS 4560Family Partnerships in Early Childhood

• 3 courses deep, ending at HDFS 3950

  1. HDFS 1020Human Development
  2. HDFS 3690Research Methods in Human Development and Family Studies
  3. HDFS 3950Children, Families, and Public Policy

• 3 courses deep, ending at HDFS 4550

  1. HDFS 2080Foundations of Early Childhood Professions
  2. HDFS 3430Preschool Curriculum and Assessment
  3. HDFS 4550Preschool Inclusion and Interventions

• 3 courses deep, ending at HDFS 4850

  1. HDFS 3830Fundamentals of Financial Planning
  2. HDFS 4820Investment Planning
  3. HDFS 4850Case Studies in Financial Counseling and Planning

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 Iowa State campus feed.