对优质儿童保育的需求以及不断增长的老年人口，导致对人类发展和家庭研究方面受过教育的专业人员的需求不断增加。该课程具有足够的灵活性以计划一个计划，该计划将使学生准备在儿童保育或老年护理机构中担任照料者或管理者，或在儿童和家庭服务机构中担任顾问。该计划提供了一种发展方法，以了解人类从产前发育到老年的生长。对家庭作为系统和社会基本单位的研究奠定了课程的基础。涵盖的概念包括婚姻调整，性关系，产前发育和子女出生，养育子女，育儿与发育，衰老和家庭生活周期。需要实习。马克·西斯内罗斯幼儿中心为学生提供了机会，使他们有机
The need for quality child care and a growing elderly population have created an increasing demand for professionals educated in human development and family studies. The curriculum is flexible enough to plan a program that will prepare the student to work in a child care or elder care facility as a caregiver or administrator or in a child and family services agency as a counselor. The program provides a developmental approach to understanding human growth from prenatal development to old age. Study of the family as a system and as the basic unit of society undergirds the curriculum. Concepts covered include marital adjustment, sexual relationships, prenatal development and birth of children, parenting, child care and development, aging and the life cycle of the family. A practicum is required. The Marc Cisneros Center for Young Children provides opportunities for students to gain experience in working with preschool age children and their parents in a closely supervised setting.