Applied Experience

Central to the department's mission is helping students integrate coursework and research with direct practice 'in the field'. Direct practice can mean working in educational settings, hospitals, and other environments where children and youth are continuously present and being served. It can also mean working in research, policy, and other places where children and youth may not be present (or present only on occasion), but where the work being done directly affects the lives of children and youth.

Courses that Count Toward the Applied Experience Requirement:

CSHD 004: Topics in Child Development: Identity, Community, and Voice
CSHD 034: Children, Nature, and the Development of Earth Stewards
CSHD 066: Self & Identity: Negotiating Place in Communities
CSHD 067: Resilience in Development: Children, Youth, and Adversity
CSHD 99/199: Community Field Placement (requires Instructor approval)
CSHD 100: Child and Family Health Seminar and Fieldwork (requires Instructor approval)
CSHD 120: Assessment of Children
CSHD 130: Literacy in Action: Fostering Literacy in Emergent Readers
CSHD 141: Independent Study (requires Instructor approval)
CSHD 143: Special Topics - Autism Across the Lifespan
CSHD 143-09: Special Topics - From Both Sides of the Screen: Observational and Ethnographic Methods for Understanding Children
CSHD 143-16: Special Topics - Plugging the Preschool-to-Prison Pipeline: Incarceration, Children, & Families
CSHD 145: Technological Tools for Playful Learning (Online)
CSHD 163: Infancy: Prenatal to Age Three
CSHD 178: Creative Dance for Children
CSHD 190: Disability and Difference in Children
Fieldwork Abroad

Applied Experience

Courses that Count Toward the Applied Experience Requirement:

Field Placements by Category (Partial List)