PSYC 4530 - Marriage and Family

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PSYC 1102; PSYC 2000 or PSYC 2010; PSYC 3301 or PSYC 2500; PSYC 3020; PSYC 3030
This Course will specifically examine the major challenges and changing trends facing families and marriages. Families and marriages will be studied as dynamic systems. The course will explore the changing nature of family patterns and marriages in the U.S., as well as some comparisons to non-Western cultures. Areas of study include the family in historical perspective, family life course, socialization within families, gender roles, parent-child relations, non- traditional families, alternative unions, marital interaction and power and reconstituted families.