It provides a basic foundation for careers in social service and community settings or for further graduate study in many fields of psychology, including counseling, developmental, or educational psychology, or in other professional areas, including business or social work.
Human Development Provides students with a background in the fields of counseling, developmental, and educational psychology. This major is particularly appropriate for students seeking a deeper understanding of the relationships between psychology and education and between schools and other social services, community agencies, and public and private organizations, including business.
The undergraduate Human Development Family Studies (HDFS) degree program is guided by a life-span human development perspective and a family science context. Accredited by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), the HDFS degree enables graduates to apply for the Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) designation. The curriculum focuses on families in society, interpersonal relationships, internal dynamics of families, human growth and development...
The Discipline The marriage, family, and human development (MFHD) program centers on theories, research, and practices related to optimal human development within the context of family life. It provides a life-course perspective by which human development, marriage, and family experience can be understood and improved. Provided with critical and current information about marriage, the family, and human development disciplines, students learn how children,...
Development Studies is an eminently interdisciplinary social science concentration. The study of the complex processes of social, economic and political development has theoretical, methodological, practical and ethical dimensions, and calls as such on a wide range of academic disciplines. Development Studies concentrators are encouraged to develop the combination of skills and specialized knowledge that is best suited to their area of interest. The...
The Bachelor of Arts in Human Development is an multidisciplinary program that focuses on human growth and development throughout the life span, and on the familial, social, cultural, and political networks in which individuals develop. Course offerings are drawn primarily from psychology, sociology, and biology, with electives available from other programs offered by the college. The human development major is designed to prepare undergraduates to...
The Child and Family Services major is designed for students who wish to work with children, adolescents, and/or families in a counseling-related capacity. Typical employment opportunities include early intervention programs, case management, counseling, or advocacy positions in social service agencies, mental health programs (such as child and family services, parent education, or respite services), or in other non-profit human service agencies....
Human development family studies is a major focusing on the interdisciplinary study of development across the lifespan, within the context of family and culture. Students complete foundational coursework in human development (infancy and childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, middle and later adulthood/aging) and in the area of family studies. This familiarizes them with theory and research in the field, and helps them identify factors influencing...
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