The mission of the Human Development and Family Studies program is to graduate knowledgeable, skilled, critically conscious, and ethical human services professionals and citizens. Our program emphasizes information literacy, critical reflection, and community-engaged learning experiences rooted in social justice and strengths-based frameworks of human development and family science. Graduates are prepared to pursue an advanced degree or professional work and to promote positive development and healthy relationships, empower individuals, families, and communities to thrive, and interrupt systems of privilege and oppression. Our interdisciplinary perspective makes HDFS a distinctive major. You will take courses in the behavioral and social sciences, the humanities, physical and biological sciences, and multi-cultural education. These liberal studies provide you with the vital knowledge and perspectives you need to fully appreciate the complex interaction of individual psychology and biology, social relationships, families, communities, societies and cultures.