Human Development & Family Science

Human Development and Family Science is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding development and relationships in context. The Department of Human Development and Family Science has a faculty whose research, teaching, and mentorship has been nationally recognized.

We have a well-established mentoring program, which begins as soon as the student is accepted into HDFS. We actively prepare our students to become successful academic scholars both in terms of research and teaching. The range of careers for which we prepare our students is unparalleled. Since 2000, our program has placed more faculty into research extensive family science departments than any other program in the U.S. We also prepare PhDs and master’s students for applied careers in administration, program evaluation, and program development. Our alumni have positions with universities, colleges, government agencies, research institutes, and human services agencies throughout the United States and internationally. We have developed an outstanding reputation as a place to study individual and family diversity and multiculturalism across the life course. Because we define diversity and multiculturalism broadly, our focus is on the multitude of ways that individuals and families may differ, including, but not limited to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, family structure, nationality, geographic location, and sexual identity.

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