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Program Goals & Objectives

Program Goals
The purpose of the International Program in Human Development and Family Studies is to add an international perspective to the undergraduate experience of students in this and related majors.


Program Objectives
  • expand student horizons in world culture and diversity.
  • provide American students with experience of the day-to-day life in a modern Italian city.
  • provide an international perspective and context for the study of human development and families.
  • observing the world of young children and the social policies that support that world.
  • studying the Italian family and how it has functioned in different ages.

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