Preparing Teens and Young Adults for Romantic Relationships and Deep Friendship

Harvard HGSE

How might we better enable teens and young adults to cultivate both deep, meaningful romantic relationships and friendships? Students can draw on developmental psychology, moral philosophy, education research, and the arts and humanities to examine what it takes to love wisely and well, the key capacities at the heart of close relationships, including empathy, self-awareness and generosity, and how these capacities can be developed in schools and other settings. Class time will primarily…