Minor in Family Engagement

Understand the family context and how it affects children and families as they develop and flourish. Our Minor in Family Engagement is ideal for you if you want to provide services to family members or families as a whole. This minor compliments those in social work, psychology, education, and more. Students can make this an all online minor by strategically selecting courses and course sections offered online throughout the calendar year.

This minor is not open to Family and Child: Family Studies majors. This minor is open to majors in Family and Child: Early Childhood Education as long as the students choose 9 credits from the following electives: ECYF 285, ECYF 340, ECYF 360, ECYF 394, ECYF 475, ECYF 485. This Minor is open to majors in Family and Child with concentrations in Child Life and Early Intervention if students students choose 9 credits from the following electives: ECYF 285, ECYF 340, ECYF 360, ECYF 394, ECYF 475. Students in this minor are exempt from taking ECYF 100.

15 credits

Family Engagement Minor requirements, 6 credits

 

ECYF 250	Family Relations	3
ECYF 350	Families in Cross-Cultural Perspectives	3

Family Engagement minor electives, 9 credits from

ECYF 285	Youth Work	3
ECYF 340	Life and Workplace Management	3
ECYF 360	Advanced Community Engagement and the Work of Social Justice	3
ECYF 380	Parenting	3
ECYF 393	Presentations, Practices and Techniques for Family Life Education	3
ECYF 394	Family Services Administration	3
ECYF 475	Marriage	3
ECYF 484	Family Stressors and Crisis	3
ECYF 485	Family Policy	3

Students in this minor are exempt from the ECYF 100 prerequisite for ECYF 393, ECYF 484, and ECYF 485. 

Total Credits: 15