This course highlights skills, attitudes, behaviors, and principles needed to prepare oneself for a strong marriage and to wisely select a marriage partner.  Preparation for marriage is also emphasized by focusing on healthy practices related to dating, courtship, engagement, and the transition following marriage.

This course consists of foundational principles and basic skills of parent-child interaction. Students will apply typical decisions, problems, and opportunities encountered by parents.

This course will give students practical experience by having them prepare the curriculum needed to teach a workshop or seminar on some aspect of family life. After preparing the curriculum, students will market the program, conduct the workshop, and evaluate the effectiveness of the education. A strong emphasis will be placed on how to teach effectively in group settings.

The purpose of this course is to prepare students to teach parent education classes. It explores a variety of parent education programs and encourages students to think carefully and critically about parenting materials.

This course covers financial concepts of direct concern to the individual or family. Budgeting, financial institutions and services, consumer buying, use and control of credit, financial records, buying and selling homes, insurance, and basic investments will be explored.

This course is designed to help students gain deeper knowledge of developmental science – understanding of children’s development in the physical, cognitive, and emotional/social domains, developmental theory, and core developmental concepts during early and middle childhood - and to increase students’ disposition to apply developmental science knowledge to plan and implement effective interventions to foster optimum development of children they will serve in their roles as professionals, parents and in church and community settings.