Youth development specialist Courses

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Courses

This program is 100 percent online: no campus visits are required. Successful completion of the program requires 12 credit hours.

Courses are offered by multiple public universities in the IDEA consortium, and some may have varying start and finish dates. Once you’re a Mizzou student in the program, you will register each semester through Mizzou regardless of the institution offering the course.

Course planner

The chart below shows when the courses are traditionally offered. Courses are 3 credit hours each, unless stated otherwise. The University reserves the right to change or cancel courses as needed.

State authorization

States require that the University of Missouri be authorized to deliver university-level distance/online education to their residents. Each state handles this process differently.

Please see our state authorization page for more information.

Learn more about this program

This program is administered by the Department of Human Development and Family Science