| Course ID: | HDFS 3930E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | It’s Complicated: 21st-Century Intimate Relationships |
Course
Description: | Students will learn how to improve their own relationships by
studying the science behind relationships: the good, the bad,
the ugly, and how to fix it when it is not working. Students
will explore what draws people together, the processes in how
they either stay together or break up, and both the advantages
and disadvantages to learning how to be in a relationship in a
contemporary context. |
| Oasis Title: | 21st-Century Intimate Relation |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in HDFS 3930 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Prerequisite: | HDFS 2100 or HDFS 2100H or HDFS 2100E or PSYC 1101 or PSYC 1030H or PSYC 1101E or SOCI 1101 or SOCI 1101H |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. Select appropriate theories and methods used to generate
knowledge about intimate relationships.
2. Identify and discuss the basic processes of forming and
maintaining relationships.
3. Discuss the process by which relationships are dissolved
and enhanced.
4. Prepare high-quality oral and written presentations regarding
the current fund of knowledge about interpersonal relationships.
5. Apply knowledge about the influences on relationships, such
as gender, personality, conflict, relationship beliefs, and
meaning-making in relationships, as well as how power and
violence are manifested in relationships. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Couples research
2. Theories that inform relationship science
3. Gendered power
4. Attraction
5. Personality's influence on relationships
6. Communication in couples
7. Couple conflict
8. Relationship beliefs
9. Meaning making in relationships
10. Relationship stressors
11. Friendships
12. Couple maintenance and interventions
14. Dating in the digital age |