The Department of Human and Family Development Studies (DHFDS) focuses on the College's concern with the development of the human being and the family as a basic agency for human welfare. The family is the basic organization transacting, relating and adapting with the environment. It is also the unit where human potentials are born, supported, and developed. The nurturing of such an institution is both an academic and a practical concern of human ecology particularly the Department of Human and Family Development Studies.