College of Agricultural, Human, & Natural Resource Sciences

Department of Human Development

Lower Division prerequisite courses and alternatives for transfer or substitution


It is expected that all students, regardless of the campus on which they plan to complete the degree, will have a background in human development before beginning upper division human development courses.   The four required lower division courses and alternatives for completing the content requirement are outlined below.

NOTE: Students without these courses may enroll in HD 340 and HD 204 during the first semester of enrollment at WSU. Students may take HD 346 and HD 305 in later semesters.

 

HD lower division course
Taught on the WSU Pullman Campus

 

Option 1

 

Option 2

 

Option 3

 

Option 4

Take an equivalent course in a WA community college class-room and transfer to WSU

Take an equivalent course On line at a WA community college and transfer to WSU

Take a WSU DDP course accepted as a substitution by the Human Development Department

Evaluate a course already taken at another college for equivalency.

 

HD 201
Human Development Prenatal – Age 8

Bellevue: EDUC 256
Big Bend: ECE 217
Centralia: EDEC 245
Columbia Basin: ECE 106
Highline: EDUC 112
Lower Columbia: ECED 114
Olympic: ECE 155
Peninsula: ECE 110 & Psych 205
Skagit Valley ECE 220
Spokane Falls: ECED 190
Tacoma EDUC 135
Walla Walla: ECE 141
Wenatchee Valley: ECE 102
Whatcom: ECE 116
Yakima: ECED 101 & ECED 104

 

Green River: EDU 110
Skagit Valley: ECE 220

 

HD 340
Development in Context

 

 

 

Consult with WSU DDP Pre-HD Advisor for review of a course taken elsewhere for equivalency to HD 201, 202, 203 or 204.

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HD 202
Middle Childhood and Adolescence

 

Peninsula: ECE 110 & Psych 205
Skagit Valley ECE 225
Spokane Falls: ECED 290
Walla Walla: ECE 242

 

Edmonds SHS 186
Green River: EDU 111
Skagit Valley: ECE 225.

 

HD 346x Middle Childhood
 and After School Care

 

HD 203
Adulthood and the Older Years

 

Yakima: Psych 214

 

Shoreline: Psych 208

 

HD 305x Gerontology

HD 204
Family Systems and Interaction

Lower Columbia: ECED 216
Olympic: Soc 135
Peninsula: ECE 205
Spokane Falls: ECED 254
Tacoma EDP 203 & EDP 204

 

HD 204 is offered by WSU DDP programs in both on line and flexible formats


1) All community college courses have been reviewed by HD during the process of creating Articulation Agreements, and are equivalent to the respective course.  New courses are being added and will appear in updates of the transfer equivalency tables.

2) These are known on-line equivalent courses.  Others will be added as they are reviewed and known to HD.

3) A Pre-HD advisor at DDP will work with the new student to submit course descriptions, course outlines or other documentation for review of a course that may be equivalent for the respective HD lower division requirement.

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