Child & Family Development
Child & Family Development B.A.
A career in the field of child and family development offers opportunities to improve and enrich the lives of children as well as adults of all ages.
What do you study while earning a degree in Child & Family Development?
- Human development,
- Family dynamics (including family crisis)
- Health and nutrition
- Diversity Issues with families and children (including families living in poverty)
- Family financial/consumer Issues
- Application in child and family development, including: law, home-based interventions, early childhood programs, and case management.
- Early childhood programs
Our Faculty
- are talented, caring, highly qualified
- place a premium on personal attention
- work side-by-side with students to help turn aspirations into accomplishments
Akron Advantage
Real world experience
- Internships enable students to gain hands-on professional experience and to network within their fields. As part of the undergraduate degree requirements in Child & Family Development, students complete a 120-hour internship at a community site that is chosen with the assistance of their faculty adviser.
- When they graduate, many of our students have already received job offers because of their internships.
Sample Curriculum
- for the bachelor's degree
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