Do you want to enrich the lives of children and adults every day? Do you want to improve the communities, schools, and families around you and throughout the world? Do you want to understand the interface between human development and health, between psychology and the workplace, and between knowledge and action? Are you looking for a practical major that opens up a variety of future options in fields of human resources, counseling psychology, health, education, research, community programming, leadership, or policy and law?
If so, then a degree in Applied Psychology and Human Development is your first step. The program prepares students to contribute to society through service, action, and leadership. It also allows students to study key areas that are at the forefront of current social and educational challenges confronting society: Health; Human Capital; Advocacy and Policy; and Applications to Learning.
The Applied Psychology and Human Development program in the Lynch School of Education is a top choice among Boston College undergraduates. That is because our faculty features leading teachers and researchers and our focus is on meaningful learning in the classroom applied to real world issues across local, national, and international contexts.
The program features:
Human Services and Health Sciences: Understand psychosocial challenges to healthy development across the lifespan, and learn about a range of individual and community-level strategies to prevent mental and physical illness and enhance psychosocial health and wellbeing.
Organizational Studies and Human Capital: Focus on the intersection of individuals and work/organizational contexts, with the goal of applying the science of psychology and human development to interpersonal relationships, organizational settings, and the workplace.
Policy, Advocacy and Community Change: Understand individual, community, and government roles in sustaining or challenging social and economic inequities affecting human development. Assess how psychological science informs policies and programs designed to address pervasive social problems.
Science of Learning: Understand cognitive, motivational, and affective processes that underlie learning and behavior across diverse contexts, and learn to translate this knowledge into educational and behavioral practice.
Learn more information on the 4 focus areas.
470
undergraduate majors in 2019
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35%
of our students go directly into graduate training
CDEP Survey
58%
go directly into employment
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Career paths chosen by previous graduates of the CDEP Department.
The Applied Psychology and Human Development major in the Lynch School of Education emphasizes state of the art connections between research, theory, and practice. Through practica and community involvement, students gain real-world experience and graduate prepared to apply what they learned in an array of community, education, business, and policy settings.
