HDE students enroll in a practicum class (HDE 140, 141, 142, or 143) to fulfill one of their major requirements.

A second practicum class and/or internships (HDE 192) can be used to fulfill "restricted elective" requirements.

Internship courses are numbered "92, 192, 292" and contracts are located in the wall unit next to 1332 Hart Hall.

Special study and research courses are numbered "99, 199, 299" and contracts are located in the hallway carousel outside 1303 Hart Hall.

When a student wishes to enroll in an internship, special study, or research course work, it is their responsibility to first identify, locate, and secure the written approval of a faculty sponsor. Enrollment for HCD unit credit must be arranged with permission from HCD faculty, as unit credit can only be awarded by regular faculty in academic departments. Faculty agree to sponsor internships or special study projects when the focus of the student's project is well matched with faculty academic expertise and/or research interests.

To apply for academic unit credit, HCD students are required to complete a department contract (work plan). Students are required to have a completed contract on file with the Department of HCD before they start counting hours toward the fulfillment of internship, special study, or research course work. Faculty consent to sponsor course work for academic unit credit by listing the academic work assignments on the "To be Completed by Faculty and Student," page of the contract and by signing their name to this work plan.

SPECIAL NOTE FOR STUDENTS

Faculty are under no obligation to sponsor internships, special study, or student research projects. Those who do agree to serve as sponsors are voluntarily increasing their academic work load. Please keep this in mind and be courteous when asking faculty to sponsor (and eventually evaluate) your internship or special study course work.

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ALPHABETICAL LISTING (by last name)                             EMAIL             PHONE             OFFICE                 ACADEMIC QTRS.
                                                                                                                                                                                     Available for       Available for
                                                                                                                                                                                         (92, 192)         (99, 199, 299)
Acredolo, Curt - Ph.D. Adjunct Associate Professor           cracredolo         752-6235         2429 Hart                 F, W, S                 F, W, S

Aldwin, Carolyn - Ph.D. Associate Professor                        cmaldwin           752-2415         1335 Hart                 F, W, S                 F, W, S

Barton, Keith - Ph.D. Professor                                                 kbarton             752-0359         1339 Hart                 F, W, S                 F, W, S

Bryant, Brenda - Ph.D. Professor                                              bkbryant           752-2242         1349 Hart             (prerequisite HDE 130 or 142)

Chen, Zhe - Ph.D. Assistant Professor                                    zhechen            754-6750          1363 Hart                 F, W, S                 F, W, S

Gaedeke, Kay Jeanne, Lecturer, Assoc.Dir.CCFS                  kjgaedeke         752-2959          CCFS                    (prerequisite HDE 140/140L)

Ge, Xioajia - Ph.D. Assistant Professor                                   xjge                    754-9379          1321 Hart                 F, W, S                     W, S

Harper, Larry - Ph.D. Professor                                                 lharper               752-3624          1329 Hart                 F, W, S                 F, W, S

Kraft, Rosemarie - Ph.D. Lecturer and                                      rhkraft               754-9446          1357 Hart              (prerequisite Kraft's HDE 141)
                                Associate Dean, Graduate Studies 2-2770

Ober, Beth A. - Ph.D. Professor and                                         baober              752-6934           1351 Hart                 F, W, S                 F, W, S
                            Chair, Department of HCD

Ponzio, Richard - Ph.D. UC Coop. Ext. Specialist                    rcponzio           752-8824           2343 Hart                 F, W, S                 F, W, S

Russell, Stephen - Ph.D. UC Coop. Ext. Specialist                  strussell            752-7069          2337 Hart                 F, W, S                 F, W, S
 

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Faculty sponsor internships and special study course work for students who have projects related to the faculty person's area of academic expertise, research interests, or those students the faculty person is currently advising. Please review the following list before selecting a faculty person as a potential sponsor.
 

Curt Acredolo, Adjunct Associate Professor, Ph.D. , Child Psychologist

Research: The development of logic and reasoning in the primary grades, health behavior and research methods

Instruction: HDE 131 (Developmental Disabilities) fall and winter quarters

Internships: Placements in elementary schools and placements with therapists who work with families and children who have autism

Age Groups: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (elementary grade levels)

Available to sponsor special study: F, W, S

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S
 

Carolyn Aldwin, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Developmental Psychologist

Research: Adult development and aging, coping with stress, social support, health, aging and adaptation, psychoneuroimmunology

Instruction: HDE 100C (Adulthood and Aging), HDE 143 (Field Studies of the Elderly) teaches every-other academic year, HDE 160 (Social Aspects of Aging), HDE 162 (Issues in Aging), HDE 200C (Development in Adulthood), HDE 212 (Adaptation and Aging)

Internships: Placements with seniors/elders and in organizations working with seniors/elders

Age Groups: Young adults (post high-school), middle-aged, and older adults (elders)

Available to sponsor special study: F, W, S (199s only)

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S (192s only)
 

Keith Barton, Professor, Ph.D., Child Psychologist

Research: Interaction of cognitive and personality variables, developmental disabilities, research methods in child development,

child rearing practices, social behavior and achievement patterns, child abuse, psychological tests/assessments

Instruction: HDE 120 (Research Methods in Human Development ), HDE 121 (Psychological Assessment), HDE 220 (Research Methods in Human Growth and Development)

Internships: Special education, behavior problems

Age Groups: Preschool, K-12 grades and young adults (post high school)

Available to sponsor special study: F, W, S

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S
 

Brenda Bryant, Professor, Ph.D., Child Psychologist

Research: Clinical child development from a competence and coping perspective, family, school and neighborhood influences on social/emotional development, special consideration of child's perspective, human-animal bond, parental availability, maternal employment, peer relations, middle childhood

Instruction: HDE 13 (Parenting), HDE 130 (Emotionally Disturbed Children), HDE 142 (Field Studies with Exceptional Children), HDE 200B (Middle Childhood and Adolescence), HDE 238 (The Context of Individual Development), HDE 241 (Consultation Approaches to Child Development

Internships: Field placements with exceptional children

Age Groups: Children/adolescents who are developmentally within 1st-12th grades

Professor Bryant will sponsor only those students who have done well in her HDE 130 or 142 classes.
 

Zhe Chen, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Child Psychologist

Research: Cognitive development (specifically, children and their thinking and learning processes). Current research includes analogical problem solving, scientific reasoning, and micro genetic analyses of strategy acquisition.

Instruction: HDE 101 (Cognitive Development)

Internships: Early education (NOT in the area of exceptional or special needs children)

Age Groups: Infants, toddlers, preschool, early elementary (K-6th grades)

Available to sponsor special study: F, W, S

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S
 

Kay Jeanne Gaedeke, Lecturer, Associate Director, Center for Child and Family Studies, UCD

Instruction: HDE 140 (Communication and Interaction with Young Children) and 140L (Laboratory in Early Childhood)

Internships: Infancy through 3^rd grade, special education, teen parent programs

Age Groups: Infancy, toddlers, preschool children and K, 1, 2, 3 grades

Available to sponsor special study: F, W, S (only if students have already completed HDE 140 and 140L course work)

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S (only if students have already completed HDE 140 and 140L course work)
 

Xiaojia Ge, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Child Psychologist

Research: Behavioral and emotional development in adolescence, adolescent depression and psychological distress, longitudinal methodology and statistics

Instruction: HDE 100B (Middle Childhood and Adolescence), HDE 110 (Contemporary American Family)

Internships: Placements working with/for adolescents

Age Groups: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 grades (upper elementary, middle school, Jr./Sr. high school)

Available to sponsor special study: W, S (199s, 299s only)

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S (192s only)
 

Larry Harper, Professor, Ph.D., Child Psychologist

Research: Comparative/developmental psychology, evolution and behavior, development of social behavior in man and other mammals, peer relations, sex differences and play, environmental settings and early social behavior, parent-offspring relationships; biological bases of behavioral development

Instruction: HDE 100A (Infancy and Early Childhood), HDE 200A (Early Development), HDE 211 (Physiological Correlates of Behavioral Development)

Internships: Placements with 1^st grade multi-lingual class in West Sacramento (17 minutes from UCD), or students with California Youth Authority/Juvenile Probation internships

Age Groups: Infancy, toddlers, preschool (or first graders at Westfield Elementary School)

Available to sponsor special study: Infant/toddler video-taping and scoring of children's play, or infant gesturing (w/Claire Vallotton)

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S

Will sponsor student internship placements with the 1^st grade, multi-lingual class, at Westfield Elementary School in West Sacramento (17 minutes from Davis) and students who have internships with California Youth Authority/Juvenile Probation.
 

Rosemarie Harter Kraft, Lecturer, Ph.D., Child Psychologist and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, UCD

Research: Cognitive style, individual differences in the development of information processing, learning, memory, short term memory and laterality development

Instruction: HDE 132 (Individual Differences in Giftedness), HDE 141 (Field Studies with Children and Adolescents), HDE 217 (Development of Cortical and Perceptual Laterality), HDE 231 (Issues in Cognitive and Linguistic Development)

Internships: Placements with teachers, gifted students, children with learning disabilities

Age Groups: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 grades

Available to sponsor special study: Only if students' projects are directly related to Professor Kraft's research work.

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S

Professor Kraft will sponsor students who are currently taking (or who have taken) her HDE 141 practicum class.
 

Beth A. Ober, Professor, Ph.D., Cognitive and Biological Psychology, and Chairperson, Department of HCD

Research: Cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease, investigation of memory and language processes and brain-cognition relationships in normal and abnormal aging

Instruction: HDE 143 (Field Studies of the Elderly) teaches every-other academic year, HDE 163 (Cognitive Neuropsychology in Adulthood and Aging), HDE 200C (Development in Adulthood), HDE 232 (Cognition and Aging)

Internships: Placements with seniors/elders and in organizations working with seniors/elders

Age Groups: Young adults (post high-school), middle-aged, and older adults (elders)

Available to sponsor special study: F, W, S (199s, 299s only)

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S (192s only)
 

Richard Ponzio, UC Cooperative Extension 4-H Specialist, Ph.D., Science and Technical Education Specialist, Director - 4-H Center for Youth Development (statewide organization)

Research: Development and assessment of science education and science literacy programs in non-school settings, development of critical thinking skills in science education content and methodology, and teacher education/partnerships for improving educational practices, instructional strategies and school reform

Instruction: HDE 141 - Field Studies with Children and Adolescents

Internships: Science Education Age Groups: K-12 gr

Available to sponsor special study: F, W, S

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S
 

Stephen Russell, UC Cooperative Extension 4-H Specialist, Ph.D.

Research: Adolescent development and sexuality with foci on (1) the long-term effects of sexuality education on sexual behavior and decision making, and (2) adolescent sexual orientation, health, and competence.

Internships: Field placements related to teenage pregnancy/ parenting, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender youth

Age Groups: Junior High School, Senior High School, or College

Available to sponsor special study: F, W, S

Available to sponsor internships: F, W, S
 
 

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