The Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human development offers innovative, interdisciplinary and applied research-focused degree programs for undergraduate and graduate (Master's, Ph.D.) students. Focused on the core theme of "Child Development in the 21st Century", Eliot-Pearson provides an applied research environment that leverages the historic opportunity for change brought about by new technologies to improve the lives of children around the world. New technologies transform how children live, learn, and play. Research and educational programs at the undergraduate and graduate level, are unified by a core mission with: -a developmental approach: to rethink the nature of childhood and adolescence in the 21st century and the roles that children, adolescents, families, and caretakers, as well as the media, play in these complex, multi-cultural digital societies -a global approach: to meet the needs of all children and adolescents around the world -a design approach: to conceive new technologies, programs and policies to change children's and adolescents' lives