这种专注的目的是让学生准备在生态寿命发展的视角下批判性地检查和理解家庭科学。该计划使学生为从事家庭科学和人类发展的教授，研究人员和学者做好学术职业的准备。为学生提供了丰富的课程，以家庭科学，人类发展和研究探究的理论和学术知识为中心。该计划的另一个目标是将家庭多样性的重要性（包括种族，种族，文化，阶级，性别，性取向，年龄，宗教，能力和语言）纳入课程，因为这与家庭科学和社会科学中的社会正义有关。儿童，青少年和成人发育。家庭科学和人类发展集中的核心是家庭和人类生态系统的概念框架，以及它如何影响美国和全球范围内与
This PhD program takes a multi-disciplinary approach to preparing students for college and university teaching and research, as well as the development and evaluation of programs that seek to expand equity in opportunities and outcomes for children, youth, and families. Our program helps to prepare scholars to define problems and conduct research that informs programs and policies aimed at promoting the health and well-being of individuals and families, with a focus on historically marginalized individuals and families. To do so, we ground our work in family diversity and take a systems approach to examining problems faced by children, youth, and families in contemporary society.<br>The goal of this concentration is to prepare students to critically examine and understand family science within an ecological life span development lens. This program prepares students to work in academic careers as researchers and scholars in Family Science and Human Development. Students are provided a rich curriculum that centers on theoretical and scholarly knowledge in family science, human development and research inquiry. Another objective of this program is to integrate the importance of family diversity (which includes race, ethnicity, culture, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, ability and language) into the curriculum as it relates to social justice in family science and child, adolescent and adult development. Central to the Family Science and Human Development concentration is the conceptual framework of family and human ecological systems and how that framework impacts research, practice and policy with diverse families in the United States and at the global level.<br>The PhD in Education and Human Development links an intensive research-based course of study with a content area specialization to prepare candidates to assume faculty positions in institutions of higher education or research-based organizations. Successful applicants are paired with a faculty mentor who supports the student to engage in research, development, service, and other professional activities.