Vision Podcast 99 - Dr. Laura Boltz, Dr. Arazais Oliveros, and Kristina Schoenthaler on the new child advocacy minor

About this episode

This episode discusses the expansion of the university's child advocacy certificate into a more comprehensive minor with insights from the involved faculty and students.

In this episode, we’re joined by a team that has taken on the important challenge of expanding the university’s child advocacy certificate into a much more robust and interdisciplinary minor. The team consists of Dr. Laura Boltz, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, who is the principal investigator on a Child Advocacy Studies Expansion grant, as well as Dr. Arazais Oliveros, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, and Kristina Schoenthaler, Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology.

People in this episode

Guests: Dr. Laura Boltz, Dr. Arazais Oliveros, Kristina Schoenthaler

Topics covered

• child advocacy
• interdisciplinary studies
• university programs
• sociology
• psychology

Keywords

• child advocacy
• minor
• certificate
• interdisciplinary
• Mississippi State University

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mississippi State University, Department of Sociology, Department of Psychology

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