Our objectives are to educate the next generation of HDFS professionals and scholars, to generate new knowledge, and to foster the well-being of individuals and families in their everyday lives. As a premier HDFS department, we focus on early care and education; child, youth, and family development; and aging while committed to interdisciplinary study, diversity, and internationalization.

Degree Outcomes

• Graduates have gone onto graduate school for counseling, social work, human development and family studies, public health education, student personnel administration in higher education, and early childhood literacy employment.
• Graduates have gone on to work at the UNCG Child Care Education Program, Guilford Child Development, Guilford County Schools, Our Children’s Community School, Head Start and Early Head Start programs, individually-owned family child care homes, UNC TEACCH Autism Program, Tristan’s Quest, Family and Consumer Sciences, Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center, Act Together Crisis Center—Youth Focus, YWCA, and Department of Social Services.

The Student Experience

• Majors in the Child, Youth, and Family Development concentration complete internships in a variety of local agencies such as the Children’s Home Society, Family Service of the Piedmont, The Women’s Hospital, Tristan’s Quest, Greensboro Urban Ministry, and American Red Cross.
• Undergraduate students serve as research assistants for a variety of projects within Human Development and Family Studies.
• HDFS and the Department of Social Work offer a language and culture immersion in Costa Rica every other summer as an opportunity for students to increase their knowledge of Latino culture and improve their Spanish language skills. Participants have daily language instruction and stay with Costa Rican families.