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  • FAMS 3500: Family Demography

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores family life, modern and historical, through the lens of population science. Focuses on how patterns of fertility, mortality, and migration have shaped global and domestic family life and projections for the future of families.
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  • FAMS 3800: Early Development in Families

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2010H with a C or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Studies physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development from conception through adolescence. Emphasizes normal child development within family, social, and cultural contexts.
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  • FAMS 3850: Adult Development and Aging

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2010H with C or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Explores the dynamic process of adult development from emerging adulthood to death. Focuses on current adult developmental research and theories, the development of adults within the family system, and the needs of a growing aging population. Includes the examination of physical, familial, emotional, and social development.
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  • FAMS 4040: Secondary Data Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): PSY 3110; FAMS 3020; (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2010H with a C or higher); and University Advanced Standing. Focuses on research in the academic discipline of Family Studies. Teaches how to use the tools of research as a problem solving resource in real-life and applied settings. Includes how to form a research question or hypothesis, develop a proposal, create measurement, and apply for IRB approval. Requires completion of a research project.
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  • FAMS 4300: Family Dispute Resolution

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): COMM 3410 or instructor approval; and University Advanced Standing. Builds on fundamentals learned in the basic mediation course. Reviews research and theories on family dynamics and conflicts. Examines the most effective mediation approaches, techniques, and skills for resolving family disputes. Presents information on specialized family mediation situations such as family mediation divorce, parent/teen, adoption, elder care. Prepares students to effectively participate in family mediations by utilizing an interactive workshop format with role-play, observation, and actual mediations.
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  • FAMS 4400: Family Policy and Advocacy

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (FAMS 2400G or PSY 1010 or FAMS 1500 or PSY 1100) and (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2010H with a C grade or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Creates an understanding of the role of family professionals as advocates for the institution of the family. Covers family theories and research methods which aid in critically analyzing current policy development and implementation patterns in Utah and the United States. Utilizes the developmental theory in support of advocacy for family members in all their diverse structures, ages, and life stages.
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  • FAMS 4500: Family Life Education Methodology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (FAMS 2400G) and (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2010H with a C grade or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Explores the field of family life education. Includes the history, development, and theory of family life education, as well as discussing the types of family-life education programs. Develops the knowledge and practical skills that are required to identify needs, design programs, teach family-life education, facilitate groups, and evaluate participants and programs in a wide variety of settings with a broad range of populations. Develops an appreciation for the impact of diversity in family-life education, which includes an awareness of multicultural factors, family structure, culture, economics, gender, race, religion, disability, ageism, and sexual orientation.
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  • FAMS 4600: Relationship Education Certification

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): FAMS 2400G and (ENGL 2010 or 2020 with a C+ or higher) and University Advanced Standing. FAMS 4500 is strongly encouraged but not required.. Certifies students in the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program and other relationship curricula.
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  • FAMS 4660: Family Resource Management

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): FAMS 2400G strongly recommended; University Advanced Standing. Introduces students to the fundamentals of family resource management. Focuses on the 5-Step Decision Making Model and norms, roles, values, and traditions of resource management in family systems. Applies knowledge and theories to the study of how families manage their resources for both survival and fulfillment. Explores multiple perspectives including historical, cultural, and personal influences, and contemporary challenges of resource management.
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  • FAMS 4670: Family Dynamics and Systems

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (FAMS 2400G) and (ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2010H with a C grade or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Introduces the fundamentals of family dynamics and systems as they relate to family structure and function. Focuses on historical development, theoretical underpinnings, and applied utility of dynamics and systems. Includes boundary management, infraction, and renewal in contemporary family systems.
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