Offered by the College of Health and Human Development and through the World Campus.
Coordinator: Vanessa Wade
S-211 Henderson Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-8000
E-mail: lvb1@psu.edu
This major, offered through the World Campus and at many Penn State campuses (Altoona, Delaware County, Dubois, Fayette, Harrisburg, Mont Alto, Shenango Valley, Worthington Scranton, University Park and York), integrates practical and academic experiences to provide the student with entry-level professional competence in the human service field. The objective of the major is to offer a general education background, a knowledge base in life span and family development, and a core of professional skills that may be applied in program planning and service delivery activities.
There are 2 options from which students can choose to concentrate their studies: Adult Development and Aging Services and Children, Youth and Family Services. Those who complete the 60-credit requirement and graduate with the Human Development and Family Studies (2EHFS) associate degree may apply most of those credits toward the Human Development and Family Studies 4-year degree.
This option is designed to prepare students for a wide variety of service roles in mental health facilities, nursing homes, and other institutions for the aged; area agencies on aging; public welfare and family service agencies; women's resource centers; human relations programs; employee assistance programs; and customer services and consumer relations programs in business and industry. An approved field experience in any of a wide variety of settings that serve adults, the aged, and their families, is required for this option.
This option is designed to prepare students for service roles in preschools; day-care centers; hospitals; institutional and community programs for emotionally disturbed, abused, or neglected children and adolescents as well as a variety of public welfare and family service agencies. An approved field experience in a children, youth, or family services setting is required for this option.
The 2-year HD FS degree is offered via the World Campus and University Park as 2EHFS. It also is offered by as 2FSAL, by Harrisburg as 2FACA, and by the Penn State Campuses listed below as 2FSCC. For more information about the program at each campus and through the World Campus, please contact the following:
Altoona:
Lori Bechtell
jb3@psu.edu
Harrisburg:
Bill Mahar
wjm2@psu.edu
Gordon Nelson
gxn1@psu.edu
Other campuses:
Delaware: Cynthia Lightfoot cgl3@psu.edu
Dubois: Sally Horsey sjh6@psu.edu
Fayette: John Rapano jvr3@psu.edu
Mont Alto: Jacqueline Schwab sen@psu.edu
Shenango Valley: Wendy Middlemiss wlm6@psu.edu
Worthington Scranton: H. Durell Johnson hdj2@psu.edu
York: Harriet Darling hed4@psu.edu
World Campus and UP:
Vanessa Wade
S-211 South Henderson Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-8000
lvb1@psu.edu
A ED 303
AAA S/WMNST 100 (GS; US)
AAA S/WMNST 101 (GH; US)
AAA S/WMNST 102 (GH; IL)
AAA S/SOC/WMNST 103 (US)
ACCTG 170, 211
ADM J/CLJ 111
ADM J/CLJ/SOC 012 (GS)
ADTED 100
AEE 360
AEE 369
AM ST/WMNST 104 (GH; US)
B A 241, 242, 243, 250
B LAW 243
BB H 043, 045, 046, 101 (GHA), 143 (GHA), 146, (GHA) 251 (US), 302 (US), 315 (US)
BIOL 055 (GN), 341 (GN)
CAS 202 (GS), 250, 352, 271 (US; IL)
CLJ/SOC/ADM J 012 (GS)
CLJ/ADM J 111
CMPSC 101 (GQ), 203 (GQ)
COMM 205, 370
ECON 002 (GS), 004 (GS), 315 (GS)
EDPSY 014
FIN 100, 301
HD FS any 100-300 level class
HD FS/WMNST 250 (US)
HIST 154 (GH; US)
HIST/WMNST 116 (GS; US; IL)
H P A 057 (GHA), 101, 301, 310, 332
HRIM 201
IST 110 (GS)
KINES 013 (GHA), 060, 303 (GHA)
LIR 100 (GS), 136 (GS), 201 (GS)
LIR/WMNST 136 (US)
M I S 103, 204
MANGT 340 (US)
MGMT 100, 321, 341
NURS 215
NUTR 119, 251 (GHA), 253, 360
PSYCH 100 (GS), 212 (GS), 221 (GS), 231 (GS;US), 238 (GS), 243 (GS), 256 (GS), 261 (GS), 270, 281(GS)
RPTM 120 (US;IL), 230, 277 (US)
R SOC 356
RL ST/WMNST 137 (GH; US; IL)
SOC 001 (GS), 003 (GS), 005 (GS), 007, 012 (GS), 013 (GS), 015 (GS), 023 (GS), 030 (GS), 055 (GS), 119 (GS; US), 174, 230, 309
SOC/AAA S/WMNST 103 (US)
SOC/ADM J/CLJ 012 (GS)
SOC/WMNST 110 (GS; US)
SOC/WMNST/AAA S 103 (US)
SPAN 003, 100, 110, 305
STAT 100 (GQ), 200 (GQ)
WF ED 001
WMNST 001 (GS; US; IL), 003 (GH; US; IL)
WMNST/AAA S 100 (GS; US)
WMNST/AAA S 101 (GH; US)
WMNST/AAA S 102 (GH; IL)
WMNST/AAA S/SOC 103 (US)
WMNST/AM ST 104 (GH; US)
WMNST/HIST 116 (GS)
WMNST/RL ST 137 (GH; US; IL)
WMNST/HD FS 250 (US)
WMNST/LIR 136 (US)
WMNST/SOC 110 (GS; US)
YFE 211