3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Lower Division
This course provides a basis for interdisciplinary exploration of cross-cultural human development and family relations throughout the lifespan. Key topics include international variation in cultural understandings of parent-child relationships, gender roles, education, work, social relationships, and health/wellness. Students will explore professional applications in an increasingly globalized world.
Learning Outcomes1Understand and respect the diversity of children, youth and families around the world.
2Identify how family values and traditions vary across cultures and how these variations have emerged within broader ecologies (e.g., economics, treaties, history) of the culture.
3Articulate processes of intergenerational transmission of culture with a particular focus on parent-child relationships.
4Compare and contrast various cultural responses to issues important to children and families, such as conceptions of childhood, gender roles, education, and work-family relationships.
5Describe how individual characteristics such as friendship, altruism, leadership, academic achievement, delinquency, conflict management, aggression, and morality vary across cultures.
6Analyze the reasons for migration and immigration and their impacts on children and families.
7Develop skills for working across cultures, including cross-cultural communication and adapting to culture contrasts when interacting with those from a culture different from one's own.
Prerequisites
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