FRCD 3753: Family Development
Course Objectives
- Understand the historical and social context of the American family,
- Understand family diversity (ethnicity, family forms, social class, variations in family life cycles),
- Understand an overview of fmaily theories,
- Understand the terminology and concepts of the family as a system of interactions
- Understand family development across the family life cycle ranging from premarital interactions to families in the later years
- Understand sex and affection in family life
- Understand power and decision making in families
- Understand extended family and kin networks
- Understand types of marital relationships
- Understand parenting issues across the family life cycle
- Understand sibling relations
- Understand family challenges and strengths