FRCD 3023: Child and Parent inSocial Context
Course Objective
- Identify and discuss changing demographic, social, and economic trends affecting families and children
- Identify and discuss desirable outcomes of parent-child socialization in a changing society
- Identify and discuss significant parenting, childcare, school, work, media, and community issues as they apply to development needs of children from infancy through adolescence.
- Develop an understanding of parenting in single parent and remarried families
- Develop an understanding of parenting the exceptional child
- Develop an understanding of various myths regarding parenting
- Conduct and analyze an interview with a family from a culture or ethnic group other than the student's