School of Social Work College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota

School of Social Work

Youth Studies Minor


Who are youth?
What do you think about youth?
Why this interest and concern in youth?
Consider a commitment to youth!

A minor that explores youth
as an idea,
as persons,
as an age group,
and as a life stage -
seeking to understand their everyday lives and study the ways communities respond to them.

This minor builds on the work done over thirty years by the Center for Youth Development & Research and the Youth Studies Program at the School of Social Work, College of Education + Human Development.

Minor Information:

  • Begin with:
    YOST 1001: Seeing Youth, Thinking Youth: Media, Popular Media & Scholarship
    (3 cr)
  • Choose 3-4 Youth Studies elective credits.
    In consultation with the Undergraduate Advisor.
  • Choose 6 general elective credits.
    In consultation with the Undergraduate Advisor. Department examples: African-American Studies; Asian-American Studies; Chicano Studies; Child Psychology; Family Social Sciences; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Recreation; Sociology; Educational Psychology.
  • End with:
    YOST 4002W: Constructing Personal Models of Youth Scholarship and Youthwork
    (4 cr; writing intensive; offered spring semester)
  • This minor requires 16-17 total credits.

For additional information, please contact our Undergraduate Advisor: Cindy Pavlowski, 612-624-4290, pavlo002@umn.edu

Minor Declaration Form