Please visit the Human Ecology Advising Center website for updates on Spring HDF courses as well as common HDF registration issues, including what's listed below. See your Interactive Degree Audit or CNS Degree Checklist for a list of required courses for your degree option. 

Spring Only Classes

• HDF 378K Topic 9-Introduction to Child Life
• HDF 378K Diversity in HDFS

Recent updates to the Course Schedule

• HDF 372K has been cancelled
• HDF 347 will not have a writing flag

Lab before Lecture - HDF 313 & 113L Child Development and Lab

• You must be registered for HDF 113L before you can register for HDF 313
• If you are on a waitlist for HDF 113L and get into the lab, you are guaranteed a spot in HDF 313

Pre-Requisite Updates

• HDF 466 Guidance in Adult-Child Relationships: only pre-requisite enforced is HDF 313 and 113L, see below for pre-req waiver
• Any non-practicum class with “consent of instructor”: consent not required, no waiver required

Pre-Requisite Waivers: contact the HE Advising Center at headvising@austin.utexas.edu if one of the following applies for an HDF class:

• You meet the pre-requisites below but the registration system won’t let you add an HDF class
• You have permission from a professor to take an HDF course without the pre-requisites
  • Include proof of permission such as an email from the professor
• You are taking a pre-requisite class over summer break, haven’t transferred in a pre-requisite class taken as outside UT, or haven’t claimed relevant AP credits yet

Substitutions

• HDF 322 Personal and Family Finance is the approved substitute for HDF 312, which is no longer offered
• HDF 466 can be used towards a BS Option I: Early Childhood as an option class on all catalogs
• HDF 378K Gender and Sexuality can count towards any HDFS degree

HDFS Classes Offered Spring 2020

HDF Lower Division Classes (required for all degree options)

HDF Upper Division Classes

• Required courses vary by degree option
• See your Interactive Degree Audit or CNS Degree Checklist for a list of required courses for your degree option. 
• Upper division standing = completed 60 credit hours, including current semester