The Department of Human Development and Family Studies examines human development across the lifespan in the context of families, schools, communities, and culture. We train tomorrow’s leaders for careers that will enhance lives, from childhood to old age, in a wide array of educational, health-related, and human-service settings.
Our programs educate students to learn to identify factors that influence cognitive, emotional, social, and physical development throughout infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and later adulthood in the contexts of culture and family.
