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Undergraduate
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- Major in Human Development and Family Studies
- Associate Degree in Human Development and Family Studies
- Minor in Human Development and Family Studies
- Honors Study in Human Development and Family Studies
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Areas of Specialization
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- Research Area of Specialization: Family Development
- Research Area of Specialization: Individual Development — Childhood
- Research Area of Specialization: Individual Development — Adolescence
- Research Area of Specialization: Individual Development — Adulthood and Aging
- Research Areas of Specialization: Intervention and Prevention
- Research Areas of Specialization: Methodology
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Cross Cutting Themes of Research
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- Adolescence and Young Adulthood
- Child Maltreatment
- Cognitive Health
- Computational Methods for Developmental Systems Models
- Determinants and Promotion of Well-Being
- Development and Family Processes in International Contexts
- Developmental Neuroscience
- Family Systems and Processes
- Gender and Development
- Health and Family Processes
- Healthy Aging
- Influences of Stress on Development and Aging
- Longitudinal Methodologies/Designs for Studying Change and Variability
- Parenting, Parent-Child Relations, and Child Outcomes
- Socio-Cultural and Economic Diversity
- Substance Use
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- Quantitative Developmental Systems
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- Child Brain Development Lab
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Program Goals
As an HDFS student you will learn about concepts and research that will help you understand human development across the lifespan. You will learn:
- How people and families develop biologically, psychologically, and socially
- About individuals and families in your own and other cultures
- How the family, the workplace, schools, the community, and the larger culture affect and are affected by the individual
- About social issues such as child, spouse, and elder abuse, substance use, and divorce
- Skills for helping individuals, families, or groups through prevention programs and other intervention techniques
- How human service agencies and professionals deal with these problems
- To evaluate alternative approaches to promoting optimal development
- Leadership and managerial skills necessary for success in administration and evaluation of human service programs
- About moral, ethical, and legal issues you will face as professionals
We have organized these diverse learning goals into five specific learning objectives that we expect all HDFS majors to achieve. We conduct annual assessments of program effectiveness to monitor whether we are reaching that goal and to identify ways we can improve our program.
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