HDFS 102

Fall 2025 All Classes

All Classes

Credit: 2 hours.

Stress, frustration, and difficulty surrounding academic work? Students will learn executive function strategies that can be applied directly to assignments for their current classes. These strategies will promote student success this semester and in their future academic and professional career. Discussion time will be used to complete course assignments, build social networks, and provide a quiet study space with structured accountability. This course is for students who have or suspect they have a neurodiverse brain.

Credit is not given for both HDFS 199 Academic Strategies and HDFS 102. For spring course offering, open to any student. Instructor approval needed. Contact Dr. Jeanne Kramer (jjkramer@illinois.edu) for approval to register. Prerequisite: For fall course offering, restricted to students enrolled in the Illinois Neurodiversity Initiative (INI) Program.

HDFS 102 class schedule data for fall 2025
CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
79937
Discussion/
Recitation
Laboratory
A
A
11:00AM -11:50AM
11:00AM -12:20PM
T
R
3 Christopher Hall
3 Christopher Hall
Kramer, J
Kramer, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/25-12/10/25
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
Section Info:
Is your differently-wired brain causing extra stress, frustration, and difficulty surrounding your academic work? This course will use the assignments from your current classes to teach executive function strategies that will promote success this semester and throughout the rest of your academic and professional career. You will learn effective strategies to improve difficulty getting started, staying organized, remembering due dates, paying attention, planning projects, managing stress, study skills, and more. Lab time will be used to complete course assignments, build social networks, and provide a quiet study space with structured accountability. This course is for students who have or suspect they have a neurodiverse brain. Instructor approval required. Contact Dr. Jeanne Kramer (jjkramer@illinois.edu) for approval to register.
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