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Dec 07, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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SOC 205 - Sociology of Marriage and Family3 Credits
Offered Fall
This course examines families today and in the past with a view to understanding the changes that have taken place in gender roles, sexuality and reproduction, courtship, co-habitation and marriage, parenthood and child-rearing. We will look at the institution of the family within a political, social and economic framework. We will also examine some of the challenges facing families today; poverty, teen pregnancy, adoption and foster care, surrogacy, child abuse and neglect and domestic violence.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology
Core Curriculum Attribute(s): History and Social Science
Course Applies to: Gender and Sexuality Studies B.A. , Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor
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