应用发展心理学课程通过考虑儿童日常生活中的社会发展问题，反映了发展心理学与应用科学的交叉。该计划的毕业生将拥有知识和技能，可以在针对儿童，家庭和学校福祉的环境中进行研究和工作，特别是在城市内，低收入，文化少数群体和跨文化背景下。共有三个集中度，可以在集中度内和集中度之间灵活地构建课程体验，从而结合基础课程和专业课程的广泛接触，并针对每个学生的职业目标和兴趣量身定制：早期发展/早期干预集中于遗传，阻碍或促进早期发展的生物学和环境因素，以及针对处于危险之中的婴幼儿的既定和创新干预方法。儿童的社会情感发展集中于
The Applied Developmental Psychology program reflects the intersection of developmental psychology and applied science by considering questions of developmental import within the social context of children's everyday lives. Graduates of the program will have the knowledge and skill to conduct research and work in settings focused on child, family, and school well-being, particularly in inner-city, lower-income, and cultural minority and cross-cultural contexts.The program has three concentrations, with flexibility within and across concentrations to construct a program experience that combines broad exposure to foundational courses and to specialized courses and experiences tailored to individual students career goals and interests: The Early Development/Early Intervention concentration focuses on genetic, biological and environmental factors that impede or promote development in the early years and on established and innovative intervention approaches for infants and young children at risk.The Socioemotional Development of Children concentration focuses on the interactions between individual, peer, and parenting/family factors in the social emotional development of children in different socio-cultural contexts. The Educational Contexts of Development concentration focuses on the cognitive, social, and motivational factors that affect children's learning within the contexts of schools, families, cultures, and neighborhoods.