Commencement speaker to focus on her education journey
Guide the next generation towards a brighter tomorrow
with a Childhood Studies degree from BSU
The undergraduate major in Childhood Studies is designed for students who want to develop knowledge and skills necessary for careers working with children and families in a wide variety of settings.
It is unique in its focus on understanding children and childhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Childhood Studies brings together knowledge about children and youth from infancy through the age of legal majority as seen from the perspectives of the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, medicine, education and the law.
As a Childhood Studies major, students develop valuable skills in preparation for work with children in settings such as private and state-funded programs, Department of Children and Families, family resource centers, children’s museums or recreation centers.
An interdisciplinary program

Enhance your understanding
Further your understanding of childhood studies with a broad-based examination of childhood grounded in the liberal arts, a strength that helps BSU's program stand apart from others in the region.

Develop marketable skills
Students in Childhood Studies gain many skills employers seek such as critical thinking and problem solving, oral and written communication, and global and intercultural fluency.

Advocate for social justice
Improve children’s lives through the study of children's identities in relation to constructs of race, class, sexuality, gender, culture, and ethnicity and the role of social institutions in their lives.