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Sep 18, 2024
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2023-2024 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SOC 127 - Relationships, Families and Marriage 3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods
Introduction to the social functions of marriage and the family. Includes structures of marriages and families, relationships, marriage, and transformation of marriage.
Gen-Ed: Meets AGEC - SBS and C, G; Meets CTE - SBS and C, G.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Identify the dynamic nature of marriages, families, and intimate relationships around the world and how they are increasingly affected by global events.
- Discuss how to recognize, confront, and dispel prominent myths about marriages, families, and intimate relationships.
- Describe the interactive relationships of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
- Demonstrate an informed openness regarding marriage, family, and intimate relationships.
- Evaluate a number of essential issues facing marriages and families
Performance Objectives:
- Identify and explain the dynamic nature of marriages, families, and intimate relationships.
- Discuss how to recognize, confront, and dispel prominent myths about marriages, families, and intimate relationships.
- Describe and explain how marriages, families, and intimate relationships around the world are increasingly affected by global events.
- Describe and explain the interactive relationships of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
- Demonstrate an informed openness regarding marriage, family, and intimate relationships.
- Evaluate and discuss a number of essential issues facing marriages and families.
Outline:
- Marriages and Families
- U.S. and world trends
- Historical perspectives
- Sociology of marriage and families
- Relationships
- Gender roles
- Many faces of love
- Dating, coupling, and mate selection
- Sexuality and intimate relationships
- Non-marital relationships
- Marriage
- The marriage experience
- Reproduction and parenting
- Marriage and families in later life
- Transformation of Marriage
- Work: family role
- Violence and abuse
- Divorce
- Remarriage and remarriage families
Effective Term: Fall 2023
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