Kinship and Families

This course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on contemporary marriages, families, and other intimate relationships. Students will become familiarized with competing models and theories on relationships. In addition, this course explores cross-cultural variation in family systems as well as diversity and change within the American population, Topics to be covered include mate selection, sexuality, marital structure, marital happiness, divorce, parenting, and alternative family forms. This course is also cross-listed as SOCI2500.

Grade Basis: AL
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 3.0

Last updated: 04/01/2020