人类发展科学研究着眼于整个生命周期内的增长，发展和行为改变问题。人类发展科学计划（HDS）是跨学科的，纳入了人类学，生物学，认知科学，传播，民族研究，历史，语言学，文学，心理学，社会学，教育研究和城市研究与规划课程。HDS课程旨在强调发展理念，将其作为理解人类行为的基本观点。这些课程涵盖人类发展中的广泛问题：从大脑和知觉发展到推理和问题解决，再到社会互动和文化体系的演变。HDS统一并协调了该地区当前在校园中可用的优秀研究和教学资源，并概述了影响人类发展和变化方式的因素。<br> <br>人类发展研究已成为
The scientific study of human development focuses on issues of growth, development, and behavioral change across the lifespan.The Human Developmental Sciences Program (HDS) is interdisciplinary, incorporating courses from the Departments of Anthropology, Biology, Cognitive Science, Communication, Ethnic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Psychology, Sociology, Education Studies, and Urban Studies and Planning Program. The HDS curriculum is designed to emphasize the idea of development as an essential perspective from which to understand human behavior. The courses cover a broad spectrum of issues in human development: from brain and perceptual development, to reasoning and problem solving, to social interaction and the evolution of cultural systems. HDS unifies and coordinates the excellent research and teaching resources currently available on campus in this area and profiles the factors that influence the ways in which humans develop and change. The study of human development has become increasingly central to a wide range of important issues affecting infants, young children, adolescents, and adults, as well as the changing structure of the American family and public policy on children, health, and education. An understanding of the processes that underlie human development is crucial to our evaluation of these issues and to our ability to offer avenues for remediation of the attendant problems. There are three major areas of study within HDS: biological development, cognitive and language development, and sociocultural development. These areas consider issues that pertain to development of specific neural and cognitive processes and development within a larger social and cultural context.