Degree options
Want to pursue the child life track? Review the program requirements for the exact courses you need to take.
Use the four-year plan below as a guide for your overall schedule.
Child Life Track
Work as a child life specialist
Comfort children and families going through health-related crises. Reduce stress. Help them cope with grief or loss.
Why take the child life track?
- Have a quicker path to a master’s degree and raise your career ceiling. The accelerated option in child life studies prepares you to become a certified child life specialist (CCLS).
- Have a rewarding career where you help others in difficult, life-changing times.
- Join a career field which needs workers. Find many job options within health care or similar settings.
Careers and outcomes
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Be there for children and families when they need it most. Give support as they face life-threatening medical events.
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Apply classroom theory and learning to your future career field.
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