Overview
Description
Lifestyles, beliefs, values, issues, and needs of children and their families from diverse ethnic groups.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify basic key theories and concepts related to diversity and the pluralistic nature of American society and explain its impact on children and families.
- identify ethical and moral issues related to children and families from diverse ethnical backgrounds.
- analyze and articulate, through group discussions and in writing, the difficulties encountered by individuals and families when they experience conflict brought about by differing cultural and ethnic values and traditions.
- research and articulate in writing their own family’s history and experiences in relation to cultural, ethnic, and/or national origin, particularly in relation to their own socialization.
- compare, contrast, and integrate the experiences of one ethnic American family, as depicted in media, to the experiences reflected in the discussion and research described in course readings.
- gather, compare, and integrate information about representative ethnic families through the research literature, media, and discussion about the culturally/ethnically diverse group of origin of that family.