Subject | Course | Section | Course Title | Course Description | Instructor | Files | Term |
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SMF | 400 | 001 | Capstone Seminar |
This seminar invites students to integrate their knowledge in the domains of sexuality, relationships, and families and make connections among theories, research, and practices. The capstone focus provides students the opportunity for critical self-reflection on their university experience. |
Toni Serafini |
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Winter 2019 |
SMF | 318 | 001 | History of Sexuality: The Modern Period |
This seminar introduces students to the history of sexuality. The course focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries. |
Jane Nicholas | Winter 2019 | |
SMF | 308 | 001 | Relational Therapy |
Families and close relationships are among the most important and valued human experiences, but they can also be the source of much conflict and pain. This course will examine the dark side of close relationships, with a focus on topics such as conflict and conflict resolution, family violence, poverty, separation and divorce, illness, and death and bereavement. |
Carm De Santis |
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Winter 2019 |
SMF | 307 | 001 | Conflict, Crisis, and Dissolution in Close Relationships |
Families and close relationships are among the most important and valued human experiences, but they can also be the source of much conflict and pain. This course will examine the dark side of close relationships, with a focus on topics such as conflict and conflict resolution, family violence, poverty, separation and divorce, illness, and death and bereavement. |
Denise Whitehead |
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Winter 2019 |
SMF | 211 | 001 | Dynamics of Dating |
This course examines the dynamics of intimate relationships in the context of the modern, Western construct of dating. Topics explored may include long-distance relationships, polyamorous relationships, online dating, hook-up culture, shifting romantic and family formation dynamics, modern communications and technology, and the role of pop culture in dating trends. |
Toni Serafini |
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Winter 2019 |
SMF | 207 | 001 | Parents, Children, and Family Relations |
This course examines caregiver/parent-child relationships from a broad interdisciplinary perspective over the lifespan. Topics may include: the transition to parenthood, parenting practices and their intersection with child/adult development, social and cultural influences on families with children, same-sex parenting, gender variance/fluidity and family relationships, family relations after parental separation, and care of aging parents. |
Denise Whitehead |
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Winter 2019 |
SMF | 204 | 001 | Introduction to Human Sexuality |
This course provides a broad interdisciplinary overview of theories and research on human sexuality. Topics may include: human anatomy, sexual health, sexual response cycle, sexual orientation, gender, sex work, sexual practices, fetishes and paraphilias, and attraction/intimacy/love. |
Stacey Jacobs |
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Winter 2019 |
SMF | 101 | 001 | Introduction to Relationships and Families |
This course provides an overview of couple, marital, and family relationships from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective. |
Denise Whitehead |
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Winter 2019 |
RS | 383 | 001 | Justice, Peace, and Development |
An examination of communities, movements, and theologies which express a Christian hope for justice, peace, and development in the encounter with injustice, oppression, and poverty. |
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Winter 2019 | |
RS | 285 | 001 | The Sacred Earth: Religion and Ecology |
An examination of the past and present effects of Christianity and other world religions on human treatment of the natural world. Historical background, recent debates, and contemporary approaches to the ethical issues will be investigated. (Cross-listed with ERS 294) |
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Winter 2019 |