The Human Development Department offers courses in four areas. Individual Course descriptions are available here.

Academic success classes emphasize study skills, critical reading, note taking, time management, decreasing math and test anxiety, and becoming familiar with graduation requirements and services at Clark College.

HDEV 102 New Student Orientation
HDEV 116/117 Motivation and Study Skills/College Success
HDEV 120 Practical Reasoning and Decision Making

For students unable to take a College Success class, we offer Student Success Sessions on various topics such as note taking, time management, test anxiety, and stress management.

Career development classes range from Career Exploration to Workplace Success and include information gathering, decision making, career assessment, interviewing skills, portfolio development and workplace success.

HDEV 100/101 Career and Life Planning/Career Exploration
HDEV 195 Workplace Success
HDEV 198 Portfolio Development
HDEV 199 Cooperative Work Experience

Personal development classes emphasize self esteem and confidence building, assertion training, stress management, relationships, overcoming anxiety, communication skills and human relations.

HDEV 103 Anger and Conflict Management
HDEV 105 Self-Esteem
HDEV 123 Relationships
HDEV 152 Decision Making
HDEV 155 Assertiveness
HDEV 186 Stress Management

Professional development classes emphasize work related skills. These include resume writing, portfolio development, co-operative work experience and workplace success.

HDEV 200 Professional Development


Class Format
The faculty are committed to making the coursework available to all students by offering daytime, evening, Saturday, online, full-term and mid-term classes. Classes are also offered as independent study.

College-wide Abilities
Human Development classes primarily emphasize Life-long Learning, Communication, and Critical Thinking/Problem Solving College-wide Abilities, however Information/Technology is incorporated in our online and hybrid course formats and utilization of the resources in the Career Center for career research.

Degree Requirements
HDEV 155 Assertiveness, HDEV 123 Relationships, and HDEV 105 Self-esteem meet the Human Relations distribution requirements for the Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree.