Academics

The information below is a list of majors, minors and graduate programs offered through the College of Education and Human Development's Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Western Michigan University.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Majors

• Family Science and Human Development (FSHD)—B.S.
• FSHD: Child Development and Services concentration w/choice of track: Child Programming & Administration or Child Life Foundations (formerly Family Science: Child and Family Development)
• FSHD: Family Studies concentration (formerly Family Science: Family Studies)
• FSHD: Youth and Community Development concentration (formerly Family Science: Youth and Community Development)
• Fashion Merchandising and Design
  • Fashion Design and Development—B.S.
  • Fashion Merchandising—B.S.
• Interior Design—B.S. (program moved to College of Fine Arts 2022)
• Nutrition and Dietetics—B.S.
• Workforce Education and Development—B.A. (formerly Career and Technical Education)
  
  • Business Education—B.S.
  • Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher Education—B.S.
  • Industrial Technology Education —B.S.
  • Occupational Education Studies—B.S.

Minors

• Drafting
• Family Science
• Fashion Merchandising
• Food Service Operations and Sustainability
• Graphic Arts
• Human Development
• Industrial Technology
• Interior Design
• Workforce Education and Development (formerly Career and Technical Education)
• Youth and Community Development

GRADUATE Programs

Graduate Certificates

• Kinship Care
• Professional Workforce Educator
• Youth and Community Development

Master's Degrees

• Accelerated Graduate Degree Program—M.A. in FCS
• Child Life
• Family Science and Services track
• Youth and Community Development track
• Family Life Education concentration (for admission beginning fall 2022, please see MA in FCS: Family Science and Services track)
• Family and Consumer Sciences—M.A.
• Child Life
• Family Science and Services track
• Youth and Community Development track
• Textile and Apparel Studies concentration
• Family Life Education concentration (for admission beginning fall 2022, please see MA in FCS: Family Science and Services track)
• Nutrition and Dietetics—M.S.
• Workforce Education and Development—M.A. (formerly Career and Technical Education)

Doctoral Degrees

• Education and Human Development—Ph.D.
• Family Science emphasis
• Workforce Education and Development emphasis
• Educational Leadership—Ph.D.
  • Workforce Education and Development concentration (formerly Career and Technical Education)

Graduate teaching assistant opportunities

Opportunities for financial support from the Graduate College
Graduate College Funding