HDFS 201 Contemporary Families in The U.S.
Offers an introduction to families with application to personal life. Focuses on diversity in family structure, social class, race, gender, work, and its interaction with other social institutions.
Notes
Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course
General Education Requirements
AAS Human Relations, AGS Social Science, AS Difference, Power & Oppression, AAOT Social Sciences, Cultural Literacy AAOT/AAS
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Use theoretical frameworks to interpret the nature of contemporary families, how family structures and roles have changed, and how they continue to change. Describe how social structures such as the media, the economy, and public policies interact with family groups to contribute to the complexity of family outcomes. Explain how difference is socially constructed. Using historical and contemporary examples, describe how perceived differences, combined with unequal distribution of power across economic, social, and political institutions, result in inequity. Analyze ways in which the interactions of social categories such as race, ethnicity, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and age, interact with the country's institutions to contribute to difference, power, and discrimination amongst families.