DOCTORAL MINOR (TAKEN BY STUDENTS OUTSIDE THE PROGRAM).

For doctoral students in other programs completing their minor using Option A.

  1. Name of Doctoral Minor: Human Development and Family Studies
  1. Overview: Any student enrolled in a UW–Madison doctoral program can pursue a doctoral minor in Human Development and Family Studies. The graduate program in HDFS, located within the School of Human Ecology, offers courses on individual and family development throughout the lifespan and across ecological settings.These courses focus on a range of topics, including risk and resilience throughout the life span, competent child rearing, positive development, poverty and the family, mindfulness and contemplative practices for child and family well-being, development in multicultural contexts, policy, adult development and relationships, adolescence, and aging and the family. Courses that address the applications of research to practice are also part of the curriculum. Recent offerings include courses in prevention science, family policy, evidence-based intervention, and bridging the gap between research and practice. Reflecting the multidisciplinary orientation of the program, faculty and students employ a wide array of methods in their work. Faculty possess expertise in areas as diverse as longitudinal modeling, community-based research, interpretive interviewing, program evaluation, observational methods, survey methodology, action research, and ethnography. The program explicitly values both qualitative and quantitative methods(
  1. Requirements: (must comply with Graduate School Policy for Option A Minors). The HDFS doctoral minor requires at least 9 credits of HDFS coursework, with no more than 3 credits below the 700 level. HDFS courses that are cross-listed with another department should be taken as an HDFS course. Students must receive a grade of B or better in each course.
  1. Procedure: Graduate students interested in pursuing an Option A doctoral minor should complete the minor admission form available on our website and consult with the Chair of the Graduate Program in Human Development and Family Studies who will help you identify an HDFS faculty member to serve as your Faculty Advisor.

Agreement Form

Completing a PhD Minor Option A in Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS)

This form may be used by HDFS Ph.D. students completing an Option A minor (if the minor department doesn’t require its own form), or an Option B minor. This form may also be used by graduate students from other departments (i.e., outside of HDFS) who are completing an Option A minor in HDFS.

Name:

Campus ID Number:

Email address:

Major Department:

I have completed:

An Option A minor (minimum 9 credits in a single department)

An Option B minor (minimum 9 credits focused on a common theme distributed among 2 or 3 departments)

Note: An Option A minor is defined and approved by the minor department. In contrast, an Option B minor is designated by the student in consultation with his or her faculty advisor.

Please list the minor courses below as they appear on your UW-Madison campus transcript.

Department / Course Number / Course Title / Number of Credits / Semester & Year Completed / Grade

If you are requesting that graduate courses completed at another institution count toward the Ph.D. minor requirement, please attach the transcript[s] from the other university to this form, along with a memo from the relevant UW-Madison department[s] listing the courses taken elsewhere, the UW-Madison equivalents, and a recommendation regarding fulfillment of the requirement. Instead of listing the courses in the table above, simply write, “See attached transcript from [university name] and memo from [professor name and department name at UW-Madison].”

Approval

Option A minor:Option B minor:

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