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Sep 07, 2024
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SOC 36500 - Constructing American Families Prerequisite(s): SOC 10000 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF D-
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course considers changes and variations in the forms and portrayals of family and family life in the U.S. across time. Topics under study may include: how gender, race, and class shape family roles and family labor (care work); processes of courtship, dating, cohabitation, partnership, marriage, parenthood, and divorce; multiracial/multiethnic families; gay and lesbian families; and family violence. This course also examines the ways in which U.S. social laws, policies, economy, public opinion, media, religion, and technology work to construct, shape, recognize, and regulate the diversity of family forms that exist. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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