Youth Development Minor
Overview
This interdisciplinary minor at OSU is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills related to youth development principles, processes, and practices.
Students with career interests in youth services and education (non-formal and formal) are ideal candidates. The Youth Development Minor helps prepare students for careers in schools and out-of-school organizations such Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCAs, FFA, 4-H Youth Development, Sport Organizations, and through other employers or volunteer agencies such as city governments, faith-based organizations, and after-school programs.
This minor is also valuable for students majoring in social work or similar fields pursuing careers serving youth populations in settings such as settlement houses, child welfare and child advocacy organizations, community mental health facilities, hospitals, and residential treatment centers. This minor combines core classes in multiple departments at OSU, including Psychology, Community Leadership, and Kinesiology.
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If you would like to enroll in the youth development minor, please see your OSU academic advisor.
Required Courses
COMLDR 5350
Youth Organizations & Program Management
KNPE 2542
Lifespan Motor Development (youth focus)
SOCWORK 2110
Prevention & Youth Development through Sport, Recreation & Play
HDFS 2420
Adolescence & Emerging Adulthood
PSYCH 3551
Psychology of Adolescence
Elective Courses
AFAMAST 2290
Black Youth
ANTHROP 5630
Language and Culture in Education (youth)
COMLDR 3330
Program Development and Evaluation
COMM 4401
Mass Communication and Youth
ESEPSY 5401
Adolescent Learning and Development in School Contexts
HDFS 5350
Families with Adolescents
HDFS 5892
Special Topics in Adolescent Development
INSTD 5801
Children and War
KNPE 2262
Coaching the Young Athlete
KNPE 2307
Adventure Based Learning
KNSISM 4245
Leadership & Programming in Sports Industry
PSYCH 4555
Adolescent Sexuality
PSYCH 5684
Psychology of Delinquency
SOCIOL 2310
Sociology of Gangs
SOCIOL 4511
Juvenile Delinquency
SOCWORK 3597
Adolescent Parenthood and Sexuality: International Perspectives
SOCWORK 5028