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  • Human and Community Development
    1303 Hart Hall
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 754-4109
    Fax: (530) 752-5660
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Human Development

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Priority: Dec. 15
  • Final: Mar. 1

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Dec. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • Ph.D. Plan A

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • GRE scores
  • Official transcripts
  • Curriculum vitae or resume
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Writing sample of up to 25,000 words (e.g., Independent scholarly paper)
  • Personal Statement
  • Statement of Purpose

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Exceptions

  • 9 quarter appointment rule exception: 12 quarters allowed

Students gain advanced knowledge of the biological, cognitive, and social-emotional developmental domains, and the contexts within which human development occurs (families, schools, hospitals, etc.), including factors that shape these contexts via social policy. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for the educational/medical administration of programs, or for professional research and teaching in the theories, methods, and accumulated research of human behavioral development across the life span.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Human Development website.

Contacts

Program Chair
Katherine J Conger Human & Community Development (530) 754-7518
Academic Advisers
Katherine J Conger
(Adviser: Primary Contact) 		Human & Community Development 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 754-7518
Lawrence V. Harper
(Adviser: General) 		Human & Community Development 9/1/12 - 3/31/13 (530) 752-3624
Lisa M. Miller
(Adviser: General) 		Human & Community Development 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 752-3955
Adrienne Nishina
(Adviser: Admissions Only) 		Human & Community Development 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 752-7003
Beth A Ober
(Adviser: General) 		Human & Community Development 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 752-6934
Lenna Ontai
(Adviser: General) 		Human Development 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-6410
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Jennifer Gouine Human Development/Child Development (530) 754-4109
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Jean Telford Graduate Studies (530) 752-9292