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  • Summer sessions offer you a chance to advance toward your degree, catch
    up on degree requirements or take courses for personal and professional
    development at a reduced rate. Choose from six-week or eight-week
    sessions, take classes on campus or try an online iCourse -
    https://students.asu.edu/summersessions

  • Child life specialists help children cope with health challenges through play and easily understood explanations. Through age-appropriate activities, the specialists ease anxiety and fear.

  • Students can assist in research with faculty and gain experience and course credit!

    • Family & human development majors can receive FAS 390 (supervised research experience) credit. Prerequisites: FAS 361; 3.00 GPA in major; contact supervising faculty member.
    • Sociology majors can potentially receive SOC 484 (internship) or SOC 499 (individualized instruction) credit; contact supervising faculty member.
    • Students who are not majors in the Sanford School are also welcome to apply for research opportunities.

  • The Tempe Escalante Community Center Preschool has an immediate opening for a Toddler Art Instructor. Current students and graduates of the Sanford School are encouraged to apply for this part-time position which pays $20/hour. An art background is not required, but classroom experience is helpful and enthusiasm is what is most desired. For more information, please call Dolores Johnson at (480) 350-5814

  • Echo Love was selected to receive a Dean's Medal from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She will be recognized at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Convocation Ceremony on Friday, December 21, 2012. We congratulate Echo on this impressive achievement!

    Echo is majoring in Family and Human Development and will graduate this month. She says her favorite class was Infant and Toddler Development, and her favorite professor is Tosh Black. He made a class in which she was struggling fun.

  • Despite the winding down of the semester, faculty, students, and staff of the Sanford School are busy as ever. We hope you will join us on Thursday, December 13th, for our end of the year celebration. Finally, we would like to recognize the following four Sanford School graduate students who are scheduled to graduate with a Master’s in Family and Human Development this month:

    Chelsea Derlan - The Impact of Parental Enculturation via Ethnic
    Socialization: Predictors of Mexican-origin Adolescent Mothers' Ethnic
    Identity


  • We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Just before that, we officially
    became the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics (The Sanford
    School for short). About 300 guests gathered in the Social Science atrium in
    the afternoon of November 20th for the official naming of the
    Sanford School and to celebrate the vision and generosity of the philanthropist
    T. Denny Sanford, nicely summarized in President Crow's address. Rick spoke of
    our collective gratitude to Denny and welcomed Jacque Radke, a pre-school