A new chapter on the importance of mentors
Pacific Oaks Professor Dionne Clabaugh, Ed.D., has co-written a chapter on mentoring first-year college students in the sciences to become self-directed learners.
Helping Your LGBTQIA+ Child, and Yourself, When They Come Out
As children come out at younger and younger ages, parents need to figure out how to best support them—while processing their own feelings.
The developmental impact of missing life’s milestone moments
Carlene Fider, Ph.D., discusses the loss and grief associated with missed milestones due to the COVID-19 pandemic from a human development perspective.
What is Lifespan Development?
Interested in studying lifespan development? Learn more about it's role in the field of human development.
Types of workplaces for graduates with human development degrees
In a field as vast as human development, it can be difficult to figure out where you’ll work after graduation. Consider these three types of workplaces.
Career crossover: how human development and education work together
Are you interested in human development and also have an interest in education? Learn more about how the two fields work together.
Can I see your phone, mom?
With accessibility to technology growing at a staggering rate, the field of human development is playing catch-up to learn its effects.
5 surprising jobs for human development majors
The field of human development offers a variety of career paths concerning the human condition and ways to help people live better lives.
Child competency begins in infancy
For alumna Jill Getto Lee, a RIE parenting class led her to Pacific Oaks and into a career empowering children from birth.
7 human development major concentrations you can pursue
Wondering what exactly a human development major can cover? Discover the wide variety of human development major specializations offered at Pacific Oaks.
What is Human Development, and Why should you study it?
If you enjoy psychology, biology, sociology, anthropology—basically any -ology!—the study of human development might be the right path for you.
Courses involved in obtaining a human development degree
Coursework in the human development degree program is comprised of learning to understand the often complex issues that people deal with throughout a lifetime.
