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The Department of Human Development and Family Studies prepares undergraduate students for a variety of exciting and challenging career opportunities, including preschool teaching, administering programs for young children, adolescents and adults, parent education, mental health services, child advocacy, and cooperative extension. Our senior interns have been placed in outstanding work settings throughout the United States such as Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, the Children's Television Workshop/Sesame Street, Walt Disney World, and the Make-a-Wish Foundation, as well as in many local schools, counseling centers, social service agencies, court systems, and assisted living facilities for seniors. In conjunction with the International Minor in Human Sciences, our undergraduate students also have been placed in international internships in Costa Rica, Germany, England, Italy, Switzerland, New Zealand, to name just a few. We are proud of the fact that our interns are often hired by their placement sites and leave the Department of Human Development and Family Studies knowing that they are moving into a satifying professional career.
The Department of Human Development and Family Studies offers the
Human Development and Family Studies curriculum, as well as a
Dual Objective curriculum with Early Childhood Education. All majors take a core of courses in the social, behavioral, and biological sciences, as well as liberal arts and humanities. These courses provide graduates with a strong educational foundation and excellent career prepartion that includes a senior-level internship.
Within the undergraduate major in Human Development and Family Studies there are three options or tracks from which undergrauate students can select: Infancy and Preschool, School-age and Adolescence, and Adulthood and Aging. Alternatively, students can opt to follow the Dual Objective Curriculum in Early Childhood Education offered in cooperation with the Department of Curriculum and Teaching.
The Department also offers an undergraduate Students from across campus a Minor in Human Development and Family Studies.
Students take two core courses and 12 additional hours of Human Development and Family Studies courses to earn the minor and enhance their career preparation.
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