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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Adulthood from the perspective of stage theories and timing of events models. Adulthood as a stage of development, limitations of stage theories. Effect of socioeconomic and cultural factors, family status roles, employment status, gender, ethnicity/race, age on adult lives.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide instruction on the various theories of family dynamics, family systems, and individual and family development. It will examine individual and collective family needs, roles and functions; family traditions; and the family of origin; as well as socio-cultural constructions and expectations of the family and its members. Students will gain an understanding of the impact of challenges and crisis on the family and explore various ways in which families cope. The course will also focus on the study of different types of families and family relationships reflecting personal (micro) and socio-structural (macro) influences. Interdisciplinary factors to be considered include economic, historical, and cultural changes that influence family structure and function. A global perspective will also be introduced. The major objective of the course is to teach students how to use evidence-based research to investigate the development, maintenance, and well-being of the family throughout the life span. Finally, students will be given the opportunity to explore community programs designed to support families as well as prevent or ameliorate problems that families and their members experience.
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3.00 Credits
Students will gain understanding of the psychological and cultural issues surrounding women's bodies. The course will cover these issues within a developmental framework, beginning with the development of sexual differentiation, development of gender identity and gender role. Issues surrounding puberty and menstruation will be covered next, followed by body image, pregnancy, child birth, breastfeeding, health concerns and aging.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how behavior and beliefs are influenced and shaped by our experiences and how these experiences are affected by race, religion, ethnicity, social class, disability, gender and sexual orientation. A substantial portion of class time is spent in group discussion and activities. Through this work, students get to know well at least 20 students in the class from diverse backgrounds.
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3.00 Credits
Students will gain understanding of the many transitions during female adolescence. Course material will focus on multiple developmental domains including physical, cognitive, and social. Course will include the following topics relevant to adolescent female development: puberty, body image, self-esteem, sexual socialization, academic achievement, and relationships. Particular attention will be paid to the impact of the media on the development of adolescent girls.
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3.00 Credits
Course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between education, gender, and development from a perspective that emphasizes the intersections of nationality, ethnicity, race, class, sexuality and well-being with the social construction of masculinities and femininities. Drawing from diverse societies, in historical and geographical terms, the course will work with a global focus whereby the attempt is to understand the multi-layered power relations framing the teaching-learning of ?gender? in formal educational as well as larger cultural contexts. Selected questions include: What implications does gender have for socialization, institutionalized schooling, and lifelong learning? How does gender manifest itself in educational practice, policy, and theory in industrialized societies? In what ways have feminisms contributed to an awareness and eradication of inequities, discriminatory practices, and injustice arising from gendered structures, ideologies, and processes underpinning educational and developmental processes?
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3.00 Credits
Sociological analysis of American society. Structure and interrelations of major institutions. Recent social movements and social change. Comparative and historical analysis of urban industrial society.
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3.00 Credits
Major religions of the world and relationship with corresponding cultures in various times and places. Analysis of how religions relate to each other, to the state and to people; how people deal with and try to control (or not) religious organizations.
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3.00 Credits
History of education in America and basic characteristics of education policy and policy making. Understanding of contemporary issues in their formulation, implementation and evaluation. Focus on how larger social issues are reflected in the life of schools and how they may be transformed.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of how construct of difference raises important questions about problems faced by most women of color in general vis-a-vis historically existent feminism, both as a political movement and as an academic current. Multiple ways of theorizing women's rights and struggles; ideological differences among feminists and women's rights advocates. Focus on issues of race, gender, sexuality and culture within context of reproduction, the family, reproductive rights, feminization of poverty, social services, academic disciplines, language, discourse.
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