HDFS at North Dakota State University

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 320Prenatal, Infant and Toddler Developmentopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HDFS 330Child Developmentopens 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 22 HDFS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 79 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.

• 3 courses deep, ending at HDFS 483

  1. HDFS 230Life Span Development
  2. HDFS 320Prenatal, Infant and Toddler Development
  3. HDFS 483Best Practices, Play and Activities from Birth Through Adolescence

• 2 courses deep, ending at HDFS 468

  1. HDFS 242Couples, Marriages and Families
  2. HDFS 468Families and Work

• 2 courses deep, ending at HDFS 477

  1. HDFS 357Personal and Family Finance
  2. HDFS 477Financial Counseling

• 2 courses deep, ending at HDFS 741

  1. HDFS 740Theories & Research in Family Financial Planning I.
  2. HDFS 741Theories & Research in Family Financial Planning II.

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 NDSU campus feed.