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To promote partnerships to foster healthy children, compassionately supportive family relationships, and an interactive community of diverse learners.
The Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies Program (CA&FS) at California State University, Bakersfield offers a major leading to a Bachelor of Arts Degree. The CA&FS program provides students with an undergraduate level of knowledge within Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies. This program highlights diverse theories, milestones across developmental domains, family systems, ethics, and developmental research methods. The CA&FS major focuses on the biological, cognitive, psychological, and sociological foundations of child behavior and development. Students will acquire knowledge and again understanding through, exposure to relevant literature, current research projects, selected service, fieldwork, and research. Students will gain an intensive, as well as global, understanding of the developmental needs, behavioral patterns, and problems of children and their families. Through a variety of courses, students gain and refine skills in observing, assessing, interpreting, and implementing programs for children and families; working with and supervising child-centered programs; participating in supportive structures for children and adolescents; and understanding families from diverse backgrounds.
All Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies students are expected to complete: 1) a core of required courses, (2) one of the specialty area concentrations, and (3) a capstone senior seminar. Concentrations are designed to provide students with specialized knowledge and abilities in one of the following areas: Elementary Education/Multiple Subjects Waiver; Caring for Children and Families in Formal Settings; Drugs, Gangs, and Youth Violence; Public Policy; or Sociological Perspectives of Children and Families. Unit requirements of the specialty concentration areas are as follows:
| • Elementary Education/Subject Matter Preparation | (32 units) |
| • Caring for Children and Families in Formal Settings | (34 units) |
| • Drugs, Gangs, and Youth Violence | (35 units) |
| • Public Policy | (35 units) |
| • Sociological Perspectives of Children and Families | (35 units) |
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