School of Human Environmental Sciences
235 Stone Building

Majors & Undergraduate Areas of Study

 

Helen A. Shaw, Professor and Dean

B. Kay Pasley, Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean

Sharon K. Maney, Assistant to the Dean for Student Affairs

Programs within the School of Human Environmental Sciences prepare students for careers in the field of applied human sciences. Our science-based teaching and research programs focus on humans in multiple environmental contexts.

Students receive a broad-based liberal education that includes University requirements and School requirements along with the courses required for their particular majors. Our programs are unique in their ability to utilize basic principles from many disciplines to solve human problems and to meet social needs.

The strong research efforts within the School serve to enhance and support highly challenging undergraduate programs. The five majors offered are:

• Housing and Interior Design
• Human Development and Family Studies
• Nutrition and Foodservice Systems
• Social Work
• Textile Products Design and Marketing

Special facilities of the School of Human Environmental Sciences include three Child Care Education Centers, the Governor Morehead School for the Visually Impaired, the Historic Costume and Textile Collection, the Family Research Center, the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, the Human Environmental Sciences Center for Research, Computer Aided Design laboratories in Housing and Interior Design and Textile Products, the Apparel Production Management Center, and the Harris Teeter, Inc., and The Dickson Foundation Cellular and Molecular Nutrition Research Laboratory.

Dept

department name

Degree

degree awarded

Major

name of major

Hrs Req

hours required for completion of the degree or the second major/minor

AOS

areas of study available in major

LIC

type of teacher licensure available; blank indicates no licensure program is available for that area of study