Parenting and Family Life

Course Number: 241
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 1 Elective
CIM Work sample opportunity: Expository speaking

The students in this course will develop the skills necessary to build successful peer and family relationships and a more positive sense of well-being. Class activities will stimulate thought on critical issues: self-esteem, gender roles, family systems, parenting, communication, community relationships, responsible decision-making, and children. Students will be assigned a project utilizing the "Baby Think It Over" doll. This doll is a computerize infant simulator that needs to be properly cared for just like a real baby. In an environment that is accepting of all viewpoints, students will practice deliberating current social controversies through class discussions, debates, videos, guest speakers, and projects.