Do you want to enrich the lives of people every day? Do you want to improve the communities, schools, and families around you and throughout the world? Are you looking for a practical major that opens up a variety of options in employment, graduate school, and leadership?
If so, then a degree in Applied Psychology and Human Development is your first step. The program prepares students to contribute to society through social and community service, counseling, human development, educational psychology and leadership.
The Applied Psychology and Human Development program in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development is a top choice among Boston College undergraduates. That’s because our faculty features leading researchers and our focus is always on application and meaningful learning in the classroom and in the local, national, and international communities.
The program features:
Understand the processes of human development and learning from infancy into late adolescence or the transition to adulthood
Understand how social and cultural contexts shape developmental and educational processes
Understand how contemporary social problems affect children, families, and communities
Use foundational theories of applied psychology and human development to analyze educational and other real-world settings
Articulate a researchable theoretical argument and apply appropriate research techniques to its empirical analysis
Articulate personal core values and beliefs and how these are informed by critical engagement with theoretical and empirical knowledge in applied psychology and human development, and investigate how these values and beliefs inform relationships with families and communities
Develop a specialized understanding of 1 of 3 areas:
Human Services: Basic knowledge of psychosocial challenges to typical development and of a range of individual and community-level strategies to prevent mental illness and enhance psychosocial wellbeing and mental health
Organization Studies-Human Resources: Basic knowledge of organizational behavior theories, their applications in human resource management, and the contributions of applied psychology in these contexts
384
undergraduate majors in 2016
Institutional Research
46%
of our students attend graduate training
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Research Assistant
Human Resources Coordinator
Assitant Account Executive
Social Worker
International Coordinator
Business Associate
Junior Media Associate
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.
