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
AAOT Cultural Literacy, AAOT Social Sciences, AAS Human Relations, AGS Social Science, AS Difference, Power & Oppression, AS Diff, Power & Oppress Found
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 ascribed differences are socially constructed, change over time, and impact our and others’ lived experiences. Articulate– using historical and contemporary examples – how ascribed differences, combined with inequitable distribution of power across cultural, economic, social, and/or political institutions, result in racism and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression. Describe how assets and resilience demonstrated by members of systematically marginalized communities and cultures play a role in dismantling racism and other systems of oppression.