SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the family as both a private and public institution, drawing on sociological theories to explain how families function across different historical and cultural contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Critically evaluate how race, class, gender, and immigration status intersect to shape diverse family structures, roles, and experiences within contemporary American society. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply sociological methods to investigate family life, including designing interview guides, conducting interviews, and analyzing qualitative data in relation to secondary sources. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Assess public debates and media representations of families using a sociological lens, identifying how ideologies and assumptions about "the family" are constructed and contested. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Produce original sociological arguments in writing and orally, synthesizing empirical research and theoretical concepts. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the family as both a private and public institution, drawing on sociological theories to explain how families function across different historical and cultural contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Critically evaluate how race, class, gender, and immigration status intersect to shape diverse family structures, roles, and experiences within contemporary American society. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply sociological methods to investigate family life, including designing interview guides, conducting interviews, and analyzing qualitative data in relation to secondary sources. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Assess public debates and media representations of families using a sociological lens, identifying how ideologies and assumptions about "the family" are constructed and contested. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Produce original sociological arguments in writing and orally, synthesizing empirical research and theoretical concepts. Audience: Undergraduate