Family Studies

The Family Studies minor provides students with the opportunity to complement their major and enhance their understanding of the issues and problems confronting families from a historical, developmental, psychological, and systemic perspectives.

The minor is beneficial to all students and supports work in a variety of fields including health care, human services, social work, counseling, education, or criminal justice.

Why Grand View?

• The Grand View University family studies minor introduces students to scholarship pertaining to the family across many disciplinary perspectives.
• The course of study in the minor is geared to bridge vocabularies and interpretations of family, providing students with an understanding of the complex meanings of family life.
• The program combines social scientific, applied, and humanistic approaches to family issues. In so doing, the minor focuses on both theory and praxis.
• Seeks to demonstrate ways in which knowledge about family allows for the development of personal and professional growth as well as the application of principles of social justice.