Adjust Font Size: Normal Large X-Large

University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus

Course Catalog by Subject

TwoStop Home

Select a Subject to display
Subject:

Family Social Science (FSOS) Courses

Academic Unit: Family Social Science

FSOS 1101 - Intimate Relationships [SOCS]
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Couple dynamics. Overview of how to develop, maintain, and terminate an intimate relationship. Communication, conflict resolution, power, roles. Programs for marriage preparation, marriage enrichment, and marital therapy.
FSOS 1101H - Intimate Relationships Honors [SOCS]
(4 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Couple dynamics. Overview of how to develop, maintain, and terminate an intimate relationship. Communication, conflict resolution, power, roles. Programs for marriage preparation, marriage enrichment, and marital therapy.
FSOS 1201 - Human Development in Families: Lifespan [SOCS DSJ]
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Human development in a family context. Life-course and human development theories. Individual/family development, mate selection, birth, life cycle. Physical, cognitive, language, social, social, and personality development. Historical, social, and cultural factors. How theory/research are applied to everyday lives.
FSOS 1211 - An Interdisciplinary Look at the Family in Multicultural America [SOCS DSJ]
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: PSTL 1211 (starting 26-MAY-15, was GC 1211 until 05-SEP-06)
This course is designed as an introduction to multicultural families using an ecological lens. The institution of the family is recognized globally as a basic unit of a society that produces, develops, socializes, and launches the next generation of its citizenry. This course will focus on families in contemporary America, a society that has grown increasingly diverse, and faces many complex challenges in today?s global environment. Using a human ecological lens allows us to examine families in their nested and interdependent environments--how individuals shape and are shaped by families, their human built environments, their socio-cultural environments, and their natural-physical environments. This is a service learning class.
FSOS 1301 - Cash or Credit: You Need to Know
(1 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Factual information about basic money management skills. Topics covered can be applied to everyday life. Online, interactive learning based class.
FSOS 1461 - Presentations at Work: Families, Communities, Nonprofits, and Schools [CIV]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: OLPD 1461
This course prepares students to present information and adjust their messages based on audience need in a variety of future work contexts. Students interested in majoring in Family Social Science, Education, Youth Studies, and Kinesiology will take this course in order to develop the disciplinary practices used in counseling, community-based organizations, education, and health sciences to convey important, and often sensitive, material to specific audiences.
FSOS 2101 - Preparation for Working With Families
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Systematic preparation for upper division education, research/field internships, and career possibilities in Family Social Science.
FSOS 2103 - Family Policy
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: FSOS 4103 (inactive, starting 22-JAN-02)
Connections between policies that governments enact, and families and their well-being. Conceptual frameworks for influences underlying policy choices. Evaluating consequences of such choices for diverse families.
FSOS 2105 - Methods in Family Research
(3 cr; Prereq-STAT 3011 or PSTL 1004 or STAT 1001 or ESPY 3264 or ESPY 1261 or SOC 3811 or SOC 2550 or PSY 3801 or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: FSOS 4105 (inactive, starting 07-SEP-99)
Scientific method. Major questions/objectives of family research. Data collection/analysis/reporting. Social context of family research.
FSOS 2106 - Family Resource Management
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was FSOS 4106 until 05-SEP-17, was FSOS 3103 until 04-SEP-01
Analysis of how individuals/families use interpersonal, economic, natural, and community resources to make decisions, solve problems, and achieve central life purposes.
FSOS 2107 - Preparation for Family and Community Engagement
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
This course will focus on preparing students to work with families in a community context. Central themes of the course include strategies for family and community engagement, understanding how families interact with community organizations and institutions, how to mobilize family and community assets, and collaborating with families to create systems change and build positive community resources. The course will pose questions for students about the roles of family professionals in supporting families in community contexts. The course will utilize readings about best practices in family and community engagement, both from the family studies literature and from cutting edge community-based organizations. Students will participate in a community project with a community organization that focuses on supporting families. This will enable them to attend community meetings, shadow family/community liaisons, and better understand the interface between families, community organizations, and institutions. Class assignments will allow students to engage in reflective practice and pull learning from their community-based experiences. They will learn concrete skills like meeting facilitation through a workshop format.
FSOS 2150 - Special Topics in Family Social Science (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; Student Option No Audit; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 8 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Review of research/scholarly thought. Topics Specific in Class Schedule
FSOS 2191 - Independent Study in Family Social Science
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-Soph, instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 12 times)
Independent reading or writing or research under faculty supervision.
FSOS 3101 - Personal and Family Finances
(3 cr; Student Option No Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Analysis of personal/family financial management principles. Financial planning of savings, investments, credit, mortgages, and taxation. Life, disability, health, and property insurance. Public/private pensions. Estate planning.
FSOS 3102 - Family Systems and Diversity [SOCS DSJ]
(3 cr; Prereq-soph or jr or sr or grad; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: FSOS 5101 (inactive)
Family systems/theories applied to dynamics/processes relevant to family life. Diversity issues related to gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability. Divorce, single parenthood, remarriage. Family strengths/problems.
FSOS 3105 - Technology in Parenting and Family Relationships [TS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
The role of information and communications technologies in contemporary family life is explored through examination of theory, and research on technology use and family and family member outcomes. Applications of technology in family practice and issues regarding professional preparation will identify avenues for support and development.
FSOS 3191 - Independent Study in Family Social Science
(1 cr [max 5]; Prereq-Jr, instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 12 times)
Independent reading or writing or research under faculty supervision.
FSOS 3222W - Our Addicted World: Going Beyond the Individual in Looking at the Addiction [WI]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
This course will explore addiction and how we, as members of a family and community can better understand the complexity of the systems that simultaneously create environments that foster addiction and assist individuals in their quest to heal from addiction. We will explore our personal beliefs and experiences with addiction, often challenging the dominant discourses that inform who gets blamed and who gets helped when dealing with addiction. We will do this by reading, discussing and writing about three different types of addiction that are currently being discussed by families, communities and policymakers: opiate addiction, screen addiction and gambling.
FSOS 3426 - Alcohol and Drugs: Families and Culture
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: FSOS 5426
Psychology/sociology of drug use/abuse. Life-span, epidemiological, familial, cultural data regarding use. Fundamentals of licit/illicit drug use behavior. Variables of gender, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, sexual orientation, disability.
FSOS 3429 - Counseling Skills Practicum I
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: FSOS 5429
Basic counseling skills. Counselor needs/motivations, non-verbal communication, basic/advanced empathy, identifying strengths, maintaining focus, challenging discrepancies, use of self. Emphasizes building from client strengths, learning through role-playing.
FSOS 3431 - Counseling Skills Practicum II
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: FSOS 5431 (inactive)
Advanced therapeutic methods. Processes of change. Identifying, reinforcing, challenging core beliefs. Reframing. Paradox. Trance, guided imagery. Cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, narrative therapies. Emphasizes non-pathologizing models of therapy.
FSOS 4101 - Sexuality and Gender in Families and Close Relationships
(3 cr; Prereq-At least jr or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Human ecology/development as frameworks for examining sexuality in close relationships. Diversity of sexual beliefs, attitudes, behaviors within differing social contexts. Using scientific knowledge to promote sexual health among individuals, couples, families through various life stages.
FSOS 4104 - Family Psychology
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was FSOS 4104W until 04-SEP-18
Processes in families of origin, families of choice, and other close relationships, within diverse social contexts. Evaluating current research on family dynamics within/across generations.
FSOS 4107 - Traumatic Stress and Resilience in Vulnerable Families Across the Lifespan
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
This course will focus on stress contexts that place families at risk across the life span such as poverty, war/civil conflict, disability, social disparities/discrimination, and family dissolution. An examination of family strengths, cultural diversity, and approaches for working with families across the life course in community based settings including classrooms, programs, and agencies will be emphasized. This course focuses on vulnerable families and those affected by historical and traumatic stress. It covers family members of all ages who face particular challenges, such as intergenerational exposure to traumatic events, persistent and structural inequality, and health disparities. This course is designed to increase awareness of the conditions that place families and children at risk, the theories and frameworks available to understand these risks, and both individual and family resiliency to these conditions. The course will primarily focus on a) individual, family, community, and developmental contexts of risk and resiliency, and b) family-level preventive and intervention frameworks and approaches to support individuals and families.
FSOS 4108 - Understanding and Working with Immigrants and Refugee Families [SOCS DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
This course focuses on the impact of ?immigration? (i.e., refugee vs. various types of immigration statuses) on family relationships, specifically how culture of origin and acculturation processes influence individuals and families over time; explores issues faced by various immigrant family systems, including a consideration of generational status, gender identities, social classes, and ethnic/racial group identities; develops intercultural interaction skills that prepare students to effectively engage with diverse immigrant families in multiple contexts; and builds practical skills that enhance students? abilities to work in and collaborate with community-and faith-based organizations to strengthen cultural resources while overcoming barriers to increase service utilization.
FSOS 4109W - Family Theories [WI]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
This course will include a review of current family theories, use of writing self-assessments, and application of theory to phenomena affecting families today.
FSOS 4111 - Introduction to Family Therapy
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was FSOS 4110 until 21-JAN-20
This course is designed as an introduction to the field of Family Therapy. Students who successfully complete the course should be well versed in the basics of both the foundational and contemporary theories of the discipline. Further, students will be exposed to a number of clinical vignettes and case scenarios that demonstrate the application of the theories in pre-recorded family therapy sessions. Through class assignments and discussions, students will be able to make a more informed decision as to whether or not family therapy is a field that holds potential for them in their own professional pursuits. Other mental health disciplines attend to family variables but having a background in family systems theory and family therapy theories will provide a solid knowledge base for someone embarking on a career in family clinical work. Systems theory guides the majority of what will be discussed in class.
FSOS 4150 - Special Topics in Family Social Science (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 8 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Review of research/scholarly thought. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
FSOS 4152 - Queer Families
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer)
This course is designed to examine Queer people in families and their unique contribution to the understanding of diversity among families. Current research, theory, personal narratives, and opportunities for self-reflection will be pathways to learn more about the diverse experiences of those who participate in families with LGBTQ members. Course topics include: family strengths and resilience; intersectionality and identity; racism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and heterosexism; family of origin; chosen families; marriage and divorce; sexuality and intimacy; children and parenting; aging; unique health concerns; and culture. Methodological issues in research and clinical issues for serving LGBTQ families will also be addressed.
FSOS 4153 - Family Financial Counseling
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Family financial issues are studied with an emphasis on the role of the financial counselor. This course emphasizes the development of professional skills for assisting individuals and families to cope with financial concerns in their day-to-day lives. This course includes an optional service-learning component where students will work throughout the semester with local non-profit organizations focused on financial literacy, financial counseling, financial curriculum development, and/or researching financial resources. This course will require students to produce video recordings. At minimum students will need recording equipment that captures both video and audio. The resulting file will need to be uploaded to the internet. Laptops with webcams and smart phones with video capabilities should be sufficient for this purpose. Equipment and training are available from the Library's SMART Learning Commons.
FSOS 4155 - Parent-Child Relationships
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
History, theories, research, and contemporary practices of parent-child relationships in diverse families/cultures across the life span. Preparation for professionals in education, social work, and other human service occupations.
FSOS 4158 - Thailand: Global Change, Communities and Families [GP]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Spring)
This interdisciplinary course uses social justice and human ecological lenses to examine global change that is occurring at the intersections among Thailand's natural environment, communities, families, and culture. Topics include globalization, human trafficking, education, religion, environmental issues, and cultural integration/identity formation, particularly among indigenous populations in northern Thailand. Students interact with key community leaders, village leaders, elders, and students who serve as teachers; this leads to critical understanding of Thai culture and the contemporary issues faced by Thailand's families and communities. Through journaling, digital stories, blogging, and discussions, students will synthesize, integrate, apply, and communicate what they've learned.
FSOS 4191 - Independent Study in Family Social Science
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-Sr, instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 12 times)
Independent reading or writing or research under faculty supervision.
FSOS 4193 - Directed Capstone Project (independent study)
(1 cr [max 4]; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 8 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was FSOS 4160H until 08-SEP-20
Individualizes experience by connecting aspects of major program with special academic interests.
FSOS 4294 - Research Internship
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-[FSOS major, at least jr] or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Research project with faculty. May include planning, proposal writing, literature review, data collection/coding/cleaning/analysis, and reporting.
FSOS 4295 - Preparation for Capstone
(1 cr; S-N only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
In this course, you will prepare for your FSoS capstone, either Field Experience (4296) or Research Internship (4294), and engage in a number of career exploration and career development activities.
FSOS 4296 - Field Study: Working With Families
(3 cr [max 4]; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits)
In this course, students will complete a field experience with a community organization related to their own career goals, develop and complete a professional development plan, and engage in reflective practice.
FSOS 5014 - Quantitative Family Research Methods I
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad student or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Family research methods, issues associated with multiple levels of analysis. Conducting family-focused data analyses using basic/intermediate methods (through ANOVA and multiple regression), including power analysis. Ethical issues involved in family research such as IRB/HIPAA regulations.
FSOS 5015 - Family Research Laboratory
(1 cr; Prereq-Grad student or instr consent; S-N or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Application of basic family research methods into experiential learning using statistical software. Analyses that correspond with problem situations in 5014 and that involve secondary data analyses. Using statistical software for basic family research. Preparation to work with quantitative family data sets.
FSOS 5111 - Introduction to Family Therapy
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
This course is designed as an introduction to the field of marriage/couple and family therapy. Students who successfully complete the course should be well versed in the basics of both the foundational and contemporary theories of the discipline. Further, students will be exposed to a number of clinical vignettes and case scenarios that demonstrate the application of the theories in pre-recorded family therapy sessions. Through class assignments and discussions, students will be able to make a more informed decision as to whether or not family therapy is a field that holds potential for them in their own professional pursuits. Other mental health disciplines attend to family variables but having a background in family systems theory and family therapy theories will provide a solid knowledge base for someone embarking on a career in relationship-oriented clinical work. Family systems theory guides the majority of what will be discussed in class.
FSOS 5150 - Special Topics in Family Social Science (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Review of research and scholarly thought. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
FSOS 5193 - Directed Study in Family Social Science
(1 cr [max 6]; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits)
Undergraduate students will need to complete the Directed Activity Contract before being able to register. https://ugresearch.umn.edu/opportunities/directed-study1 credit x 3 hours of work per week x 15 weeks in a semester equals 45 hours of academic work). Instructor consent required.
FSOS 5426 - Alcohol and Drugs: Families and Culture
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: FSOS 3426
Overview of psychology/sociology of drug use/abuse. Life-span, epidemiological, familial, cultural data regarding use. Fundamentals of licit/illicit drug use behavior. Gender, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, sexual orientation, disability.
FSOS 5429 - Counseling Skills Practicum I
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: FSOS 3429
Basic counseling skills. Counselor needs/motivations, non-verbal communication, basic/advanced empathy, identifying strengths, maintaining focus, challenging discrepancies, use of self. Emphasizes building from client strengths, learning through role-playing.
FSOS 5701 - Prevention Science: Principles and Practices
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: PREV 8001 (starting 17-JAN-17)
Theoretical, empirical, and practical foundations for strategic interventions to prevent behavioral problems and promote healthy development. Multidisciplinary roots of prevention science. Trends/directions and best practices.
FSOS 5702 - Prevention Science Research Methodology
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Fall Even Year)
This course is intended to provide students with broad exposure to topics in research methodology within the field of prevention science. Prevention science as a discipline focuses on the etiology and prevention of social, physical, and mental health problems and the translation of that information to promote health and well-being. This course will emphasize research methodology as it pertains to preventive interventions in youth and family contexts. The course is intended to serve as a survey of a wide range of topics within these areas, with research design, measurement issues, and analytic methods representing the major foci. Topics will be covered with attention to the community contexts within which prevention research often occurs as well as the ethical and human subjects issues that may arise. Students who successfully complete the course are expected to be able to interpret and critically evaluate prevention research methodology as well as identify appropriate methodical strategies to address research questions within prevention science.
FSOS 5703 - New Topics in Prevention: Implementation and Dissemination
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Spring Odd Year)
This is an interdisciplinary course focused on the new science of implementation and dissemination of evidence-based/empirically-supported family-focused psychosocial prevention programs. Course content will include an overview of conceptual and theoretical foundations of implementation research, key research questions, methods for evaluating implementation and dissemination efforts, and case examples from the empirical literature. The course will take an ecological perspective to the implementation of family-based prevention programs, addressing questions such as how widespread efforts to install programs in communities can ensure that programs create change in children and families.
FSOS 5937 - Parent-Child Interaction
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CI 5937 until 04-SEP-12, was FE 5712 until 18-JAN-05
In Parent-Child Interaction, we will examine the dynamic, reciprocal nature of parent-child interactions across the lifespan through multidisciplinary and diverse research, theories and practices. Emphasis will be given to the bidirectional impact of parent-child interactions on the parent-child relationship and on parents' and children's development within complex family, community, cultural and other socio-ecological contexts. Students will continue to reflect and grow in their understanding of the professional role and competencies of a parent educator and learning activities will focus on practical application to both personal lives and professional work with families.
FSOS 5942 - Diverse Family Experiences
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CI 5942 until 21-MAY-12
This course is a research-based in-depth look at family experiences from many diverse points of view. Students will examine diverse experiences of families and their relevance to parent education and to the professional development of parent educators. Research and theoretical knowledge are woven together with observation and personal reflection to create a strength-based approach to both families and professional development.
FSOS 5944 - Curricular Design in Parent Education
(3 cr; Prereq-FSoS 5937 & FSoS 5942 or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CI 5944 until 04-SEP-12
Students will develop the skills to adapt and design curricular resources and teaching strategies for effective parent education with diverse families across multiple contexts. Students will develop competence in conducting needs assessment, identifying content, discerning teaching methods, and designing lesson plans. As they develop their own philosophy of practice, students will study the history and evolution of parent education in Minnesota and across the U.S.
FSOS 5945 - Teaching and Learning in Parent Education (Completely Online)
(3 cr; Prereq-FSoS 5937 & FSoS 5942 or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was CI 5945 until 04-SEP-12
Students will examine adult, adolescent, and parent learning and development from the perspective of their relevance for parent education. Students will select, use, and reflect on group and individual parent education teaching strategies and facilitation processes designed to meet the needs of diverse populations of adult learners. Critical reflection, ethical practices, and other parent educator competencies related to teaching methods and processes will be addressed. Personal professional development will be facilitated through challenging assumptions and examining the knowledge and competencies required for parent educators.
FSOS 5946 - Assessment and Evaluation in Parent Education
(3 cr; Prereq-5944 or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CI 5946 until 04-SEP-12
Students will be introduced to theory, terminology, issues, and approaches in assessment and evaluation. Students will apply this new material to the tasks of monitoring program performance, assessing program quality, and measuring parent learning and development.
FSOS 5949 - Student Teaching in Parent Education
(3 cr; Prereq-Application for student teaching; FSoS 5937, 5942, 5944 and 5945 or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was CI 5949 until 04-SEP-12
Students will participate in mentored and supervised parent education practice designed to meet individual student needs and interests in parent education. The student teaching assignment is supplemented with online discussions and chats intended to provide students an opportunity to engage in discussion, reflection, and cooperative learning with regard to the practice of parent education.
FSOS 8001 - Conceptual Frameworks in the Family
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Major theoretical models about families, emphasizing sociohistorical context.
FSOS 8002 - Advanced Family Conceptual Frameworks
(3 cr; Prereq-8001 or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Builds on FSoS 8001 by focusing specifically on family level research questions. Family development/critical theoretical perspectives that can be used to understand/study family processes/contemporary ecological issues.
FSOS 8003 - Current Issues in Family Science
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Content, theories, and methodologies in family science. Emphasizes findings of recent/emerging areas of research. Readings covering a wide range of topics. Critical examination of research studies. Targeted class discussion.
FSOS 8005 - Diverse Families
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
This course hopes to support graduate students in exploring the empirical literature focused on the experiences of diverse families, broadly defined, in the United States. Further, this course aims to improve students? ability to interpret research findings and the methodological considerations in light of research on diverse families and application of a broader set of theories. Course content may include, but is not limited to: pathways to parenthood, identity-based socialization practices, culturally informed family dynamics and relationships, demographic characteristics of diverse families, or identity development among diverse youth.
FSOS 8007 - Ethical Issues and Moral Dilemmas in Family Life
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Multidisciplinary perspectives of ethics, social norms, family law, family policy, family economics, and family decision-making. Focuses on differing perspectives of individuals representing various ethnicities, socio-economic levels, religions, and sexual orientations.
FSOS 8013 - Qualitative Family Research Methods
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Approaches to qualitative family research evaluation. Phenomenological, feminist, grounded theory, content analytic, ethnomethodological, ethnographic, program evaluation. Theory, research examples, student projects.
FSOS 8014 - Quantitative Family Research Methods II
(3 cr; Prereq-[5014 or equiv], [8001 or equiv], [two stat courses or instr consent]; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Quantitative research process, from developing research question to putting findings to use. Major course project basis for class discussion. Family research. Applying research knowledge to study of families.
FSOS 8015 - Advanced Qualitative Family Research Methods
(3 cr; Prereq-8013 or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Applying qualitative research methods to understand individual/collective meaning, experience within/across diverse family systems.
FSOS 8033 - Problems in Families
(3 cr; Prereq-[8032 or equiv], instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Family therapy assessment/treatment approaches to problems such as depression, alcoholism, and sexual abuse, and to challenges of varying family structures, such as single-parent/remarried families.
FSOS 8034 - Marriage and Family Therapy Supervision
(3 cr; Prereq-FSOS doctoral student enrolled in Couple Family Therapy (CFT) or instr consent; Student Option; offered Spring Odd Year)
Theories of supervision, structures for supervision, methods of supervision, evaluation process, legal/ethical issues. Therapist-client-supervisor relationships, potential problems, contextual issues.
FSOS 8035 - Assessment of Couples and Families
(3 cr; Prereq-8014 or equiv or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Issues in research and clinical assessment. Assumptions and values underlying assessment approaches. Specific assessment techniques discussed, evaluated, and administered. Ethical, legal, and practical issues.
FSOS 8036 - Couple/Marriage and Family Therapy Research
(3 cr; Prereq-FSOS doctoral student enrolled in Couple Family Therapy (CFT) or instr consent; A-F only; offered Fall Odd Year)
Historic/contemporary approaches to C/MFT research with emphasis on prevention, intervention, dissemination from variety of perspectives.
FSOS 8037 - Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Mental Health Practice: Issues with Couples and Families
(2 cr [max 10]; Prereq-[8032, practicum or internship exper] or [grad student in cooperating mental hlth practice prog who has completed 1 course on therapy with children; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 10 credits)
Boundaries and triangles, gender inequities, family law, confidentiality and reporting requirements, dual roles, client diversity, and value clashes.
FSOS 8039 - Clinical Interventions for Couples
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Interventions into problems faced by couples at various ages and stages of their relationship. Developing and implementing effective strategies for problem solving, relationship maintenance, and partner growth, including integration of sex therapy into ongoing couple therapy.
FSOS 8043 - Family Theory Development: A Systemic Perspective
(3 cr; Prereq-8001 or equiv or instr consent, FSoS PhD student beyond 1st yr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Concepts and principles of systems and ecosystems and their applications in family science; emphasizes theoretical integration and development of research models with appropriate methodologies.
FSOS 8047 - Integrative Research Seminar
(3 cr; Prereq-8001 or equiv, 8013 or equiv, 8014 or equiv; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
For advanced doctoral students primarily in family social science who are working on independent research projects. Giving and receiving of constructive criticism and support in integrating theories, methods, and applications in order to create a totality that is logically coherent and conceptually and methodologically sound.
FSOS 8101 - Family Stress, Coping, and Adaptation
(3 cr; Prereq-8001 or equiv, research methods course; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Helping families become more resilient to stress by decreasing vulnerability to crises and traumatic stress disorders. Students develop research or intervention proposal on family stress, coping, adaptation, crisis, trauma, or resilience.
FSOS 8104 - Family Policy Seminar (Partially Online)
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Distinguishing family policy research from other family research. Conceptual frameworks, methods, and roles family policy research can play in policy-making and knowledge-building processes.
FSOS 8105 - Family Gerontology
(3 cr; Prereq-4154 or equiv or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Integrates gerontology and family studies; new lines of inquiry, qualitative and quantitative, into aging families. Family gerontological research, family relationships, family and long-term care institutions, theoretical frameworks and research methods, and research and interventions.
FSOS 8106 - Seminar: Families From an Economic Perspective
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Conceptual/methodological/economic perspectives of family social science. Family investments in human/social capital. Diversities in families. Interface of public policies and family economic well-being.
FSOS 8107 - Family Values Research: Theories and Critical Methods
(3 cr; Prereq-8013 or equiv, 8014 or equiv or instr consent; WCFE 8920 recommended; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Interdisciplinary seminar on critical modes of inquiry in the family domain that require designing studies using normative theories, examining values as units of observation, and solving practical problems by collaborative strategies designed to encourage change.
FSOS 8150 - Topics in Family Social Science (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-FSoS grad student or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 6 times)
Special seminars on timely topics.
FSOS 8151 - Preparation for Independent Teaching in Family Studies
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring; may be repeated for 9 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Practicum. Skills to independently teach family sciences courses to undergrads.
FSOS 8160 - Topics in Marriage and Family Therapy (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-MFT grad student or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 6 times)
Special seminars on timely topics.
FSOS 8193 - Directed Study in Family Social Science
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-Doctoral student in FSoS or related field; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 12 times)
Directed study.
FSOS 8196 - Couple/Marriage Family Therapy Practicum
(1 cr [max 6]; S-N only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 24 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was FSOS 8295 until 20-MAY-19
Clinical placement doing marriage/family clinical practice. Supervision of couple/marriage. Family therapy in community setting.
FSOS 8200 - Orientation for Family Social Science
(1 cr; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall)
TBD
FSOS 8201 - Teaching Family Courses in Higher Education I
(3 cr; Prereq-12 FSoS grad cr; teaching assistant exper recommended; S-N or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Students cooperatively plan, administer, and evaluate (with a graduate faculty supervisor) an undergraduate core course. Improvement of teaching and evaluation methods, and conceptualization and presentation of research-based course in family studies.
FSOS 8202 - Teaching Family Courses in Higher Education II
(3 cr; Prereq-8201 or equiv; S-N or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Under faculty supervision, students teach an undergraduate course in family social science for which they have appropriate academic preparation and professional experience.
FSOS 8275 - Clinical Consultation with Couples and Families
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; required for grad FSoS majors in marriage and family therapy prog; S-N or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Supervised students serve as a consultation group working with community clinicians and their clients, utilizing a one-way window and observation room; opportunities for cotherapy.
FSOS 8296 - Couple/ Marriage Family Therapy Internship
(1 cr [max 12]; Prereq-FSOS doctoral student enrolled in Couple Family Therapy (CFT) or instr consent; S-N only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Supervised clinical/other professional practical experiences in couple/marriage, family therapy.
FSOS 8333 - FTE: Masters
(1 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
(No description)
FSOS 8396 - Supervision of Supervision
(1 cr [max 3]; Prereq-MFT student, instr consent; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 12 times)
Equivalent courses: was FSOS 8297 until 20-MAY-19
Hands-on practicum to gain AAMFT-approved supervisor status.
FSOS 8444 - FTE: Doctoral
(1 cr; Prereq-Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
(No description)
FSOS 8550 - Advanced Topics in Family Social Science (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 6]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 6 times)
Special seminars on topics suited to student needs.
FSOS 8560 - Advanced Clinical Topics in Marriage and Family Therapy (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 6]; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring; may be repeated for 36 credits; may be repeated 6 times)
Special advanced topics or seminars.
FSOS 8666 - Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; dept consent for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
tbd
FSOS 8755 - Master's Paper: Plan B Project
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-FSoS MA student; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits)
Graduate faculty work with students on research for Plan B paper.
FSOS 8777 - Thesis Credits: Master's
(1 cr [max 18]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required [Plan A only]; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 50 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
(No description)
FSOS 8794 - Directed Research in Family Social Science
(1 cr [max 6]; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 18 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Directed research in family social science.
FSOS 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral
(1 cr [max 24]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 100 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
(No description)

Please report problems with this form to the webmaster.

This software is free and available under the GNU GPL.
© 2000 and later T. W. Shield