Rather than picking a major based on your plans after graduation, however, we encourage students to explore their academic interests and pick a major whose focus will keep them engaged for their years at Cornell. Not only will you maintain your enthusiasm for academia, we find that the students happy with their majors are most successful here. An interdisciplinary program that offers sociological, psychological, and biological perspectives on development from conception through the life course. The study of complex relationships between nutrition, health, and disease prevention from subjects as minute as a single cell to problems as broad as world hunger. An exploration of public policy through economics, government, finance, sociology, ethics, statistics, and psychology.
Majors choose a distinct concentration in family, health, or consumer policy.