Dear Students,
Childhood, where the foundations are laid in many aspects of a person's life adventure, is a time when important opportunities should be evaluated to shape the future. In today's world, where rapid changes and developments are experienced, providing the necessary support to prepare children, who are our future, has become even more important. Just as there are experts in every field, the expert in this field is a child development specialist with adequate equipment. However, in addition to having the necessary theoretical knowledge and skills, a child development specialist must also have the belief that his profession has an invaluable value in practice. This belief brings with it an approach that shows sincerity, love, interest and value, as well as knowledge, when working with children. In this regard, Tarsus University Child Care and Youth Services Department Child Development Program aims to develop students who can master the profession with their mastery of contemporary approaches and developmental equipment, who can renew themselves in line with meeting changing and developing needs, who can be the right model by showing love, respect and interest to children, who are the purest and most open to learning of human beings. It aims to graduate qualified Child Development staff with professional sensitivity, aware of the fact that it works as it is. In order to achieve these, both our University and our program are waiting for you with a theoretical and practical curriculum and experienced, young, excited and dynamic faculty members who are ready to support your professional and personal development. Our graduates are in the public and private sectors; They have the opportunity to work in private educational institutions, pre-school institutions, day care homes and nurseries. In addition, they can continue their education in appropriate undergraduate programs with the vertical transfer exam.

If you aim to become child development experts who volunteer to shape the future like a future designer by adding value first to the child and then to the family and society, our paths are crossing. To make this journey together, we are waiting for you in Tarsus, which is comfortable for a student to live in with its history, culture and nature in the Mediterranean, and to our University with its student-centered approach that is open to innovations.
 Assoc. Dr. S. Hülya KURT