Family & Intimate Relationships

Course Number:

PSY 222

Transcript Title:

Family & Intimate Relationships

Created:

Aug 16, 2022

Updated:

Jul 17, 2023

Total Credits:

4

Lecture Hours:

40

Lecture / Lab Hours:

0

Lab Hours:

0

Satisfies Cultural Literacy requirement:

Yes

Satisfies General Education requirement:

Yes

Grading Options

A-F, P/NP, Audit

Default Grading Options

A-F

Repeats available for credit:

0

Alignment with Institutional Learning Outcomes

Major

1. Communicate effectively using appropriate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. (Communication)

Major

2. Creatively solve problems by using relevant methods of research, personal reflection, reasoning, and evaluation of information. (Critical thinking and Problem-Solving)

Not Addressed

3. Extract, interpret, evaluate, communicate, and apply quantitative information and methods to solve problems, evaluate claims, and support decisions in their academic, professional and private lives. (Quantitative Literacy)

Major

4. Use an understanding of cultural differences to constructively address issues that arise in the workplace and community. (Cultural Awareness)

Minor

5. Recognize the consequences of human activity upon our social and natural world. (Community and Environmental Responsibility)

To establish an intentional learning environment, Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) require a clear definition of instructional strategies, evidence of recurrent instruction, and employment of several assessment modes.

Major Designation

1. The outcome is addressed recurrently in the curriculum, regularly enough to establish a thorough understanding.
2. Students can demonstrate and are assessed on a thorough understanding of the outcome.
   • The course includes at least one assignment that can be assessed by applying the appropriate CLO rubric.

Minor Designation

1. The outcome is addressed adequately in the curriculum, establishing fundamental understanding.
2. Students can demonstrate and are assessed on a fundamental understanding of the outcome.
   • The course includes at least one assignment that can be assessed by applying the appropriate CLO rubric.

Suggested Outcome Assessment Strategies

The determination of assessment strategies is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: writings (journals, self-reflections, pre writing exercises, essays), quizzes, tests, midterm and final exams, group projects, presentations (in person, videos, etc), self-assessments, experimentations, lab reports, peer critiques, responses (to texts, podcasts, videos, films, etc), student generated questions, Escape Room, interviews, and/or portfolios.

Course Activities and Design

The determination of teaching strategies used in the delivery of outcomes is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: lecture, small group/forum discussion, flipped classroom, dyads, oral presentation, role play, simulation scenarios, group projects, service learning projects, hands-on lab, peer review/workshops, cooperative learning (jigsaw, fishbowl), inquiry based instruction, differentiated instruction (learning centers), graphic organizers, etc.

Course Content

1. Analyze past relationship choices in the context of level of self-awareness, looking at the degree to which the choice was proactive, consistent with personal values, and the outcome of the choice; become more proactive in current relationship choices.
2. Identify values inherent in favorite media sources, along with the way these values are portrayed in characters’ behavior, perceptions, and relationship choices.
3. Compare and contrast American colonial families, slave families, Native American families in terms of family practices and values; recognize the impact of industrialization on the family; compare and contrast research findings regarding basic values and family nor in American families with diverse ethnic backgrounds.
4. Analyze current or recent relationship in terms of theories of love; identify changes in relationship patterns as a relationship progresses.
5. Analyze a relationship in terms of homogamy and/or social exchange theory; discuss research findings regarding effects of cohabitation on subsequent marriage; identify important issues in breaking up.
6. Identify the changes in feelings and behaviors during the first year of marriage, along with developmental tasks in marriage, and marital issues over the lifespan.
7. Analyze personal sexual script and sexual identity in terms of sexual orientation and sexual expectations and norms.
8. Recognize various sources of gender role socialization; identify personal views regarding traditional/egalitarian gender roles in intimate relationships; understand issues surrounding gender and power.
9. Recognize impact of communication skills on relationship satisfaction; identify gender-based communication styles in current or recent relationship; utilize "I" messages in giving feedback; demonstrate working knowledge of a variety of effective listening and conflict resolution styles.
10. Demonstrate working knowledge of issues regarding division of labor in relationships, impact of role strain on relationships, various strategies for balancing work and family, and research findings regarding the effects of day care on children.
11. Demonstrate awareness of wide range of choices regarding parenting, including childfree relationships, adoption, and deferred parenthood. Discuss the impact of children on relationship satisfaction. Apply various parenting strategies to a variety of case studies in parenting.
12. Discuss correlates to family violence, reasons that people remain in abusive relationships, sources of support for survivors and perpetrators of domestic violence, and effects of domestic violence on children.
13. Discuss major causal factors in divorce, stages in the divorce process, economic and psychological consequences of divorce, issues in co-parenting, and research findings regarding effects of divorce on children.
14. Recognize major challenges and benefits of single-parent families and blended families.
15. Identify common strengths in healthy long-term relationships and apply them to a personal relationship or case study.
16. Interview a couple who has been in a committed relationship for more than 10 years, and analyze various aspects of the couple’s relationship in terms of similarity to or deviation from research findings and issues included in the course material.
17. Perform an analysis of one’s own intimate relationship(s) in light of Gottman’s principles of successful marriages.
18. Understand the influences on and influences of romantic love in one’s personal relationship decisions.
19. Demonstrate an ability to find and critically evaluate research/information about family and intimate relationships via electronic means; to include peer-reviewed databases and the worldwide web.