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

• Make sure you are viewing ALL non-honors HDF 113L sections by clicking “Next” at the bottom of the page.
• You must be registered for HDF 113L first 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. 

New Classes on the Course Schedule

• HDF 322 Personal and Family Finance will be offered this spring and taught by a professor from the Business School.

Substitutions

• HDF 312 will no longer be offered. Any upper division HDF course not already used for your degree can be used as a substitute.
• HDF 466 can be used towards a BS Option I: Early Childhood as an option class on all catalogs.

Pre-Requisite Issues

Specific Pre-Requisites Not Enforced

• HDF 466: upper division standing pre-req not enforced, see below for pre-req waiver
• HDF 372K: HDF 337 pre-req not enforced, register on your own
• Any class with “consent of instructor”: consent not required, register on your own

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 a forwarded email
• You are taking a pre-requisite class over winter break, haven’t transferred in a pre-requisite class taken as outside coursework, or haven’t claimed relevant AP credits yet

HDF Spring 2019 Courses – flags, pre-reqs, and frequency

HDF Lower Division (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. 

HDF 466 GUIDANCE IN ADULT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS DESCRIPTION:

Students are able to take HDF 466 after completing HDF 313 & 113L with a C- or better. The course schedule states that the prerequisites also include 3 hrs of upper-division coursework in HDF, PSY, SOC, or education but this requirement can be waived.  Please contact the HE Advising Center if you will have HDF 313 & 113L completed and would like to take this course.

HDF 466 is a course that introduces students to skills for communicating with children and providing guidance to them in developmentally appropriate ways. During the lab portion of the course, students practice implementing these skills in the Priscilla Pond Flawn Child and Family Laboratory for four hours per week.  

Students consistently say that it is one of their favorite courses, in large part because of the lab component associated with it. The direct interaction skills that students learn are valuable professionally across a variety of fields (e.g., health care, education, social work, psychology) and personally to students as future parents.