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FSOS 1101 - Intimate Relationships (SOCS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Couple dynamics. Overview of how to develop, maintain, and terminate an intimate relationship. Communication, conflict resolution, power, roles. Programs for marriage preparation, marriage enrichment, and marital therapy.

FSOS 3102 - Family Systems and Diversity (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 3102/FSOS 5101
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Family systems/theories applied to dynamics/processes relevant to family life. Diversity issues related to gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability. Divorce, single parenthood, remarriage. Family strengths/problems. prereq: At least soph or instr consent

FSOS 1211 - An Interdisciplinary Look at the Family in Multicultural America (DSJ, SOCS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 1211/PsTL 1211
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is designed as an introduction to multicultural families using an ecological lens. The institution of the family is recognized globally as a basic unit of a society that produces, develops, socializes, and launches the next generation of its citizenry. This course will focus on families in contemporary America, a society that has grown increasingly diverse, and faces many complex challenges in today?s global environment. Using a human ecological lens allows us to examine families in their nested and interdependent environments--how individuals shape and are shaped by families, their human built environments, their socio-cultural environments, and their natural-physical environments. This is a service learning class.

FSOS 1301 - Cash or Credit: You Need to Know

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Factual information about basic money management skills. Topics covered can be applied to everyday life. Online, interactive learning based class.

FSOS 2101 - Preparation for Working With Families

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Systematic preparation for upper division education, research/field internships, and career possibilities in Family Social Science.

FSOS 2103 - Family Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSOS 2103/FSOS 4103
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Connections between policies that governments enact, and families and their well-being. Conceptual frameworks for influences underlying policy choices. Evaluating consequences of such choices for diverse families.

FSOS 2106 - Family Resource Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis of how individuals/families use interpersonal, economic, natural, and community resources to make decisions, solve problems, and achieve central life purposes.

FSOS 2107 - Preparation for Family and Community Engagement

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will focus on preparing students to work with families in a community context. Central themes of the course include strategies for family and community engagement, understanding how families interact with community organizations and institutions, how to mobilize family and community assets, and collaborating with families to create systems change and build positive community resources. The course will pose questions for students about the roles of family professionals in supporting families in community contexts. The course will utilize readings about best practices in family and community engagement, both from the family studies literature and from cutting edge community-based organizations. Students will participate in a community project with a community organization that focuses on supporting families. This will enable them to attend community meetings, shadow family/community liaisons, and better understand the interface between families, community organizations, and institutions. Class assignments will allow students to engage in reflective practice and pull learning from their community-based experiences. They will learn concrete skills like meeting facilitation through a workshop format.

FSOS 3101 - Personal and Family Finances

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Analysis of personal/family financial management principles. Financial planning of savings, investments, credit, mortgages, and taxation. Life, disability, health, and property insurance. Public/private pensions. Estate planning.

FSOS 3105 - Technology in Parenting and Family Relationships (TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The role of information and communications technologies in contemporary family life is explored through examination of theory, and research on technology use and family and family member outcomes. Applications of technology in family practice and issues regarding professional preparation will identify avenues for support and development.

FSOS 3426 - Alcohol and Drugs: Families and Culture

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 3426/FSOS 5426
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Psychology/sociology of drug use/abuse. Life-span, epidemiological, familial, cultural data regarding use. Fundamentals of licit/illicit drug use behavior. Variables of gender, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, sexual orientation, disability.

FSOS 3429 - Counseling Skills Practicum I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 3429/FSOS 5429
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Basic counseling skills. Counselor needs/motivations, non-verbal communication, basic/advanced empathy, identifying strengths, maintaining focus, challenging discrepancies, use of self. Emphasizes building from client strengths, learning through role-playing.

FSOS 4101 - Sexuality and Gender in Families and Close Relationships

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Human ecology/development as frameworks for examining sexuality in close relationships. Diversity of sexual beliefs, attitudes, behaviors within differing social contexts. Using scientific knowledge to promote sexual health among individuals, couples, families through various life stages. prereq: At least jr or instr consent

FSOS 4104 - Family Psychology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Processes in families of origin, families of choice, and other close relationships, within diverse social contexts. Evaluating current research on family dynamics within/across generations.

FSOS 4107 - Traumatic Stress and Resilience in Vulnerable Families Across the Lifespan

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will focus on stress contexts that place families at risk across the life span such as poverty, war/civil conflict, disability, social disparities/discrimination, and family dissolution. An examination of family strengths, cultural diversity, and approaches for working with families across the life course in community based settings including classrooms, programs, and agencies will be emphasized. This course focuses on vulnerable families and those affected by historical and traumatic stress. It covers family members of all ages who face particular challenges, such as intergenerational exposure to traumatic events, persistent and structural inequality, and health disparities. This course is designed to increase awareness of the conditions that place families and children at risk, the theories and frameworks available to understand these risks, and both individual and family resiliency to these conditions. The course will primarily focus on a) individual, family, community, and developmental contexts of risk and resiliency, and b) family-level preventive and intervention frameworks and approaches to support individuals and families.

FSOS 4108 - Understanding and Working with Immigrants and Refugee Families (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course focuses on the impact of �immigration� (i.e., refugee vs. various types of immigration statuses) on family relationships, specifically how culture of origin and acculturation processes influence individuals and families over time; explores issues faced by various immigrant family systems, including a consideration of generational status, gender identities, social classes, and ethnic/racial group identities; develops intercultural interaction skills that prepare students to effectively engage with diverse immigrant families in multiple contexts; and builds practical skills that enhance students� abilities to work in and collaborate with community-and faith-based organizations to strengthen cultural resources while overcoming barriers to increase service utilization.

FSOS 4109W - Family Theories (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will include a review of current family theories, use of writing self-assessments, and application of theory to phenomena affecting families today.

FSOS 4111 - Introduction to Family Therapy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is designed as an introduction to the field of Family Therapy. Students who successfully complete the course should be well versed in the basics of both the foundational and contemporary theories of the discipline. Further, students will be exposed to a number of clinical vignettes and case scenarios that demonstrate the application of the theories in pre-recorded family therapy sessions. Through class assignments and discussions, students will be able to make a more informed decision as to whether or not family therapy is a field that holds potential for them in their own professional pursuits. Other mental health disciplines attend to family variables but having a background in family systems theory and family therapy theories will provide a solid knowledge base for someone embarking on a career in family clinical work. Systems theory guides the majority of what will be discussed in class.

FSOS 4155 - Parent-Child Relationships

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

History, theories, research, and contemporary practices of parent-child relationships in diverse families/cultures across the life span. Preparation for professionals in education, social work, and other human service occupations.

FSOS 5701 - Prevention Science: Principles and Practices

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 5701/PREV 8001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Theoretical, empirical, and practical foundations for strategic interventions to prevent behavioral problems and promote healthy development. Multidisciplinary roots of prevention science. Trends/directions and best practices.

FSOS 5937 - Parent-Child Interaction

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

In Parent-Child Interaction, we will examine the dynamic, reciprocal nature of parent-child interactions across the lifespan through multidisciplinary and diverse research, theories and practices. Emphasis will be given to the bidirectional impact of parent-child interactions on the parent-child relationship and on parents' and children's development within complex family, community, cultural and other socio-ecological contexts. Students will continue to reflect and grow in their understanding of the professional role and competencies of a parent educator and learning activities will focus on practical application to both personal lives and professional work with families.

FSOS 5942 - Diverse Family Experiences

Credits:	3.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is a research-based in-depth look at family experiences from many diverse points of view. Students will examine diverse experiences of families and their relevance to parent education and to the professional development of parent educators. Research and theoretical knowledge are woven together with observation and personal reflection to create a strength-based approach to both families and professional development.

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Family Social Science Minor