PSY 407 Psychology of Parenting

In this active learning course, students will investigate the psychological dynamics involved in parent-child relationships across the lifespan. Contemporary family issues will be explored, such as daycare, fertility, domestic violence and child abuse, parenting in a world of social media, single parenting, divorce, gay parenting, working/stay home parenting, adoption and foster parenting, parenting children with special needs, helicopter parents and boomerang children, and caring for aging parents, among others.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

any one of the following: PSY 207, 307, PSY 308, PSY 309, PSY 310, PSY 379, PSY 382, EDUC 261