This option is available within the Human Development and Family Studies major at the following location:

• Corvallis

Students pursuing the Human Development Family Studies research option of the MS degree are expected to conduct creative, meaningful, and scientifically valid research leading to a defensible thesis. The thesis usually entails careful articulation and testing of well-conceived and clearly stated expectations or hypotheses. The thesis is the capstone of the student’s master’s program.

Option Code: 4471

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

• Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
• Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner.
• Evaluate how the values of equity, inclusion, diversity, and justice apply to an area of interest related to HDFS.
• Produce a written work in which the student exhibits mastery of at least one major theory in the field by applying that theory to an area of interest related to HDFS.
• Synthesize a body of scientific or clinical literature that applies to empirical research or applied practice.

Option Code: 4471