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
  • Child and Family Development—B.S.
  • Family Studies—B.S.
  • Youth and Community Development—B.S.
• Fashion Merchandising and Design
  • Fashion Design and Development—B.S.
  • Fashion Merchandising—B.S.
• Food Service Operations and Sustainability—B.S. (program admission suspended beginning spring 2020)
• Interior Design—B.S.
• 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 —B.S.
  • Occupational Education Studies—B.S.

Minors

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

GRADUATE Programs

Graduate Certificates

• Kinship Care
• Workforce Education and Development
• Youth and Community Development

Master's Degrees

• Accelerated Graduate Degree Program—M.A. in FCS
• Child Life concentration
• Family Life Education concentration
• Family and Consumer Sciences—M.A.
  • Child Life concentration
  • Dietetics concentration
  • Family Life Education concentration
  • Textile and Apparel Studies concentration
• Workforce Education and Development—M.A. (formerly Career and Technical Education)
• Youth and Community Development—M.A.

Doctoral Degrees

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