FCL 434 - Diversity in Families

Description:
Students will gain strategies for working with a broad range of families with diverse structures, backgrounds and circumstances. Emphasis on applying conceptual frameworks to families’ situations, communicating and collaborating with families, and supporting families’ goals. Formerly FS 434, students may not receive credit for both. Course will be offered every year (Spring).

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: FCL 234 and admission to a Family and Child Life major.

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Describe concepts such as privilege, oppression, inequality, racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism (etc.) and how they are useful in understanding individual and family functioning and well-being.
Articulate how socially constructed systems of stratification such as race, class, and gender intersect to influence one’s opportunity structure in American family life and in the broader society.
Recognize and articulate the impact of one’s own culture, values, beliefs, and behaviors on interactions with diverse populations.
Apply conceptual frameworks of family systems, ecological systems, and the risk and resilience model to diverse family structures, backgrounds, and circumstances.
Demonstrate skills to communicate and collaborate effectively with families. Students will be able to evaluate family risk and protective factors.
Determine appropriate strategies for supporting families with diverse structures, backgrounds, and circumstances.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
4/12/2019

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:
Spring Locations: Ellensburg