Community, Family, and Addiction Services
The mission of the Department of Community, Family, and Addiction Services (CFAS) is to serve students and the community by offering quality education in applied human services delivered by world-class faculty teaching in distinguished programs.
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Family & Consumer Sciences Education
The mission of the Family and Consumer Sciences Education program is to prepare individuals for professional positions in secondary schools, colleges and universities, extension education, and related areas through quality teaching, research, and service.
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Nutrition, Hospitality, & Retail Management
Whether your interests lie in health and wellness, hospitality or the retail environment, our students receive top-rated management training and practical work experience.
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Department of Design
From designing beautiful apparel using creativity and technological innovation to generating creative interiors using evidence-based design and collaboration, students receive hands-on design experience while learning from a diverse faculty dedicated to instruction, creative activities and research.
Human Development & Family Studies
Ranked as one of the top programs of its kind in the country, Texas Tech’s HDFS offers students a unique, interdisciplinary approach to understanding family dynamics and interaction and a teacher certification program in early childhood.
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Personal Financial Planning
PFP degree programs are organized around the core areas of financial planning fundamentals, risk management, investments, tax planning, retirement planning, employee benefits, and estate planning, plus supporting courses in economics, communications, social sciences and a graded internship. Students are prepared to enter financial services careers stressing leadership, ethical behavior, and professionalism and qualified to sit for the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Certification Examination.
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Enhance the Human Experience
The College of Human Sciences brings together a diverse set of degree programs with one common goal – to enhance the human experience. From our health to our families, from the way we dress to the environments in which we live, work and play, COHS students make an impact on how we experience the world around us.
The COHS offers nationally recognized programs from award-winning faculty – all in an intimate, supportive and collaborative environment. Through hands-on experience, top-rated curriculums, extensive research opportunities and community outreach programs, COHS students are ready to succeed not only in their careers, but in making the world a better place.
Faculty Achievements
Don Collier, Department of Design, has been awarded two research grants--Adaptive Reuse and Renovation of the Historic Algerita Hotel, Post, Texas ($100,000.00) and The Study of the Architectural/Design Development of the Community of Post, Texas, 1907-1918 ($100,000.00). {read more}
Student Achievements
Tory Ervin, a Human Development and Family Studies student, has been selected to present research on two different topics at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. He will be presenting "Distinction Worth Examination and Mediation Effect of Harshness of Discipline on the Relationship between Maternal Education Level and Young Children's Receptive Vocabulary" and "Comparing Feminist Attitudes and Feminist Identity: Is a Rose by Any Other Name Still a Rose?" {read more}
News & Events
Students looking for a great opportunity? Visit the Study Abroad Fair January 25th! {learn more}
CIA Information Sessions {learn more}
Graduate Studies
The College of Human Sciences offers a variety of options in Graduate Studies in the following departments: Community, Family, and Addiction Services, Department of Design, Family & Consumer Sciences, Human Development and Family Studies, Nutrition, Hospitality, & Retail Management, and Personal Financial Planning. Find out more.
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