Best Doctors of Philosophy in Life Skills 2019/2020

In the Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) Ph.D. program, we train students to become the next generation of scholars, university faculty, and researchers. Our graduates have successfully obtained positions of their choice in some of the nation’s leading academic institutions.

The HDFS curriculum addresses relational and family process in contemporary families, such as cohabiting couples, families of divorce and remarriage, military families, and foster families. Faculty are noted for their study of children’s friendships, couple dynamics, intimate partner violence, parenting practices, racial socialization, among other topics.

Curriculum Required Core Courses HOE 6366 Research Best Practices in Human Sciences CHD 5617 Professional Development in FCS FAD 5481 College Teaching in Family Sciences FAD 5942 Supervised Teaching CHD 6261 Theories of Child Development FAD 6436 Theories of Family Science FAD 6930r Special Topics in MFT: Family Diversity Required Research and Statistics CHD 5915 Methods of Research FAD 5700 Applied Research in Human Sciences FAD 6935r Special Topics in FCS: Qualitative Methods in FCS FAD 5912r Supervised Research FAD 6917 Research Methods in FCS FAD 8964r Preliminary Doctoral Exam FAD 6980 Dissertation FAD 8985r Dissertation Defense Examination Data Analytic Electives (examples) COM 5317 Content Analysis in Communication Research EDF 5402 Adv. Topics in Analysis of Variance Apps. EDF 5406 Multivariate Analysis Applications EDF 5409 Causal Modeling EDF 5410 Nonparametric Analysis Applications SOW 6407 Survey Research Methods STA 5179 Applied Survival Analysis STA 5856 Time Series and Forecasting Methods Elective Courses (examples) CHD 5618 Policy Development and Analysis in FCS CHD 5266... [-]