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Outcome |
How
Assessed |
When Assessed |
Assessed by Whom |
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1.
Families in Society
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. Families existing in context of a diverse larger social
system from local, to national, to global.
b. The reciprocal impact of social systems and the family.
c. The influence of historical, cultural, generational,
gender/role and demographic trends on contemporary families.
d. The effect of contemporary factors on the family, including
technology, economics, natural disasters, employment, mobility,
etc.
e. Social and cultural influences on dating, courtship and
marital choice, marital relations, family forms and family life.
Skills and Abilities to:
a. Demonstrate self-understanding from a
social context.
b. Show respect for diversity in personal and social
interactions.
c. Speak and write in a way that illustrates understanding of
the above social dynamics.
d. Engage and interact within the diverse larger social system,
both personally and professionally.
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Group Presentations
Exams
Application projects
Gendergram
Interviews and Written Reports
Professional Portfolio |
Primary:
CFS 1400
CFS 3350
Support
CFS 2400
CFS 3550
CFS 4400
CFS 4990B |
Family Studies
faculty |
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2.
Internal Dynamics of
Families
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. Individual’s existence in context of interpersonal systems.
b. Behavior from a Systems Theory perspective--including various
Systems Theory concepts and related theoretical approaches.
c. Healthy vs. unhealthy relationships/families.
d. Family dynamics under normal stresses, developmental
transitions, family forms, special needs and crisis situations.
e. Communication processes within interpersonal relationships
and families.
f. Conflict management and problem solving in relationships.
Skills and Abilities:
a. Observe, describe and assess interactional dynamics within
family systems.
b. Develop intervention strategies to help families be more
effective and functional.
c. Self Differentiate, observe self and apply skills and
behavior changes to their lives and relationships.
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Exams
Genogram
Research paper
Group
Presentations
Self
Applications
Case Studies
Interviews and
Written Report
Workshop Design
& presentation Workshop Packet
Professional
Portfolio |
Primary:
CFS 2400
CFS 3550
CFS 3650
Support:
CFS 1400
CFS 3350
CFS 4500
CFS 4990B
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Family Studies
faculty |
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3.
Human
Growth and Development over the Lifespan
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. Human growth and development, including developmental stages
over the lifespan.
b. Theories of development and the impact of developmental
stages and reciprocal interaction within the family.
c. Developmentally Appropriate Practices across the lifespan.
d. Transitions between developmental stages for individuals and
family systems.
Skills and Abilities to:
a. Identify developmental stages and transitions; be able to
assist families in effective developmental behavior and
transitions.
b. Apply Developmentally Appropriate Practices across the
lifespan based on an understanding of the developmental
characteristics, principles and processes of each of the stages.
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Exams
Observations and
Written Reports
Interview and
Written Reports
Research paper
Cooperative
group discussions
Personal
Applications
Video exams
Professional
Portfolio |
Primary:
CFS 1500
CFS 3450
CFS 3550
CFS 4500
Support:
CFS 4400
CFS 4990B |
Family Studies
faculty |
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4.
Human Sexuality
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. The bio-psycho-social influences of human sexuality.
b. Reproductive physiology and biological determinants of human
sexuality.
c. Conception, birth control and family planning.
d. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and their implications on
self and relationships.
e. The bio-psycho-social risk factors of sexual relationships.
f. Sexual dysfunctions and implications.
g. The interpersonal dynamics of sexual intimacy.
i. Sexual enrichment and relationship enhancement factors.
Skills and Abilities to:
a. Manage one’s own sexuality congruent with self-defined
values.
b. Manage one’s own sexuality in healthy and ethical
relationships.
c. Objectively address and discuss human sexuality including
individual preferences.
d. Demonstrate community and/or cultural sensitivity (i.e.
awareness of organizational guidelines).
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Exams
Course
assignments
Professional
Portfolio |
Primary:
Health 3500
Support:
CFS 4990B |
Health and
Family Studies faculty
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5.
Interpersonal Relationships
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. Relationships within systems (e.g. families, social, work,
etc.).
b. Interpersonal theories, concepts and models.
c. The role of individual differences in values, perspectives
and interests in relationships.
d. The effects of personality and learning styles as factors in
communication.
e. Communication skills and problem solving strategies including
listening skills.
f. Conflict and conflict management models.
g. Relationship enhancement and enrichment strategies.
h. Caring, friendship, love and intimacy at multiple levels.
i. Relationships within the context of their developmental
stages.
Skills and Abilities to:
a. Initiate and develop interpersonal relationships.
b. Model and demonstrate effective interpersonal relationship
skills and behaviors including application to their personal and
professional relationships.
c. Self differentiate, observe and manage their participation in
an interpersonal relationship including the establishment of
interpersonal goals.
d. Establish appropriate personal and interpersonal boundaries.
e. Work in teams and relate effectively in cooperative work
group experiences, including their cohort groups.
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Exams
Research paper
Group
presentations
Self
Applications
Case Studies
Interviews and
Written Report
Worksheets
Cooperative
group discussions
Professional
Portfolio |
Primary:
CFS 1400
CFS 2100
CFS 2400
CFS 3550
CFS 3650
CFS 4400
Support:
CFS 3450
CFS 4990B |
Family Studies
faculty |
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6.
Family Resource Management
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. The broad categories of resources: human, economic, and
environmental.
b. The relationship between values, goals and standards,
including their sources and development.
c. Values clarification techniques and goal setting strategies.
d. The components of writing personal and family mission
statements and/or vision statements.
e. Decision making models.
f. The elements of critical thinking and creative thinking.
g. Basic organizational time management tools and strategies.
h. Basic financial management tools and principles in the
context of the family life cycle.
i. The impact of personal choices on the larger system including
global environments.
j. Selected stress management techniques and philosophies.
k. Consumer rights and responsibilities in the marketplace.
l. Consumer fraud and ways to protect self and others.
m. Redress resources and complaint processes.
Skills and Abilities to:
a. Apply value clarification strategies and goal setting
strategies.
b. Identify and apply standards to measure goal accomplishment.
c. Write personal and family mission statements and/or vision
statements, including strategies and goals.
d. Utilize decision making models.
e. Evaluate individual thinking compared to the elements of
critical thinking and creative thinking.
f. Effectively use organizational time management tools and
strategies.
g. Apply basic financial management tools and principles to
their own situations.
h. Work in cooperation with fellow class members.
i. Identify sources of assistance to consumers.
j. Demonstrate the application of consumer skill in a
marketplace choice.
k. Verbalize and apply appropriate environmental consumerism.
l. Apply a system of evaluation to new, technologically
advanced, unproven products.
m. Manage personal and family stress.
n. Demonstrate a sense of self-direction as the result of
choices that reflect personal values.
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Exams
Self
Applications
Financial
Analyses
Stress Mgmt plan
Professional
Portfolio |
Primary:
CFS 2100
Support:
CFS 1400
CFS 2400
CFS 4400
CFS 4990B |
Family Studies
faculty |
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7.
Parent Education and
Guidance
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. Parenting from a systems theory perspective.
b. Parenting in relation to the child’s age/stage of development
(e.g. infancy; adolescence) --with specific focus on strategies
oriented toward effective developmental outcomes.
c. Parenting types/styles (e.g. Baumrind’s model) and
psychological, social and behavioral outcomes associated with
types/styles.
d. Specific parenting models, principles and strategies (e.g.
Behavior Modification, Democratic Parenting).
e. Parenting issues within family types (e.g. Single, Blended,
Dual Career, and Adoptive).
f. Contemporary societal trends and the potential impact of
parenting (e.g. Internet, Drugs, T.V., Dating patterns).
g. The impact of cultural differences and diversity on family
functioning.
h. Community resources available to families.
Skills and Abilities to:
a. Communicate with families and family members in effective and
productive ways.
b. Evaluate parenting from a systems and developmental
perspective.
c. Assist parents with parenting practices and evaluate the
impact of recommended changes.
d. Match families with concerns to available community
resources.
e. Develop and present a workshop on, about, or for parents on
topics related to parenting.
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Exams
Group
presentations
Self
Applications
Case Studies
Interviews and
Written Report
Design and
Present Workshop
Workshop Packet
Cooperative
group discussions
Professional
Portfolio |
Primary:
CFS 3550
CFS 4560
Support:
CFS 1400
CFS 2100
CFS 2400
CFS 3450
CFS 3650
CFS 4400
CFS 4990B |
Family Studies
faculty |
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8.
Family Law and Public Policy
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. The process of accessing and researching family laws,
regulations and policies.
b. Family law and public policy and its impact on families, from
a systems perspective.
c. Issues related to family law and public policy.
d. Family friendly policy in the work place.
e. Pertinent laws and policy as they apply to specific family
related areas (e.g. child or spouse abuse, child care, adoption,
teen pregnancy, family leave, bankruptcy, divorce, custody, and
social services).
f. Interaction of family life educators with other professionals
within the intervention and legal system (e.g. social workers,
divorce mediators, probation officers, human service workers,
attorneys, educators, religious leaders).
g. Laws regulating professional conduct and services.
Skills and Abilities to:
a. Access and research a public and family policy.
b. Articulate family issues related to public policy and family
law.
c. Advocate proactively for family policy legislation on local,
state, and national levels.
d. Assess family needs and make appropriate referrals.
e. Identify and coordinate professional, work place, and
community service providers in behalf of specific families.
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Exams
Capstone
research project
Professional
Portfolio |
Primary:
CFS 4990B
Support:
CFS 3350
CFS 4990B |
Family Studies
faculty
|
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9.
Ethics
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. Terms and language specific to the discussion of ethics.
b. Development, identification and importance of personal,
family, professional, community and global values systems.
c. Value conflicts and strategies to deal with them.
d. Value and ethical differences within various systems and
cultures.
e. Guiding principles and virtues useful to the FLE; the role of
ethical dilemmas in family life education as it addresses
personal, family, professional and community ethical issues.
f. Ethics as an ongoing process extending beyond a set of
guidelines.
g. Diverse approaches to ethical issues with specific
application to in principle based, virtues-based, and
relations-based approaches.
h. The impact of time and technological change on values and
ethical issues.
Skills and Abilities to:
a. Identify personal governing values.
b. Practice attitudes and behaviors that model positive personal
values.
c. Model professional ethics as outlined in the NCFR Code of
Ethics and maintain personal integrity.
d. Demonstrate respect for diverse cultural values and ethical
standards.
e. Identify attitudes and behaviors that demonstrate ethical
values within specific situations (i.e. awareness of
organizational guidelines).
f. Identify and use appropriate techniques and strategies to
deal with conflicting values. Develop alternative advocacy
positions and examine universal consequences.
g. Create case examples and use appropriate processes to
analyze ethical dilemmas that are suited to class experience or
area of practice.
h. Teach techniques and strategies for value clarification and
the development of ethical behaviors.
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Self
Applications
Personal
Philosophy paper
Teaching Ethics
outline
Case Studies
Professional
Portfolio |
Primary:
CFS 2990B
Support:
CFS 2100
CFS 4990B |
Family Studies
faculty |
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10.
Family Life Education
Methodology
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. Contemporary educational practices.
b. The educational process of accessing an audience, identifying
outcome goals, and designing educational experiences with
interventions to fit specific audiences.
c. The development of a repertoire of contemporary teaching
strategies and methods from which to select when designing an
educational experience.
d. The diversity of personality, teaching and learning styles.
e. Gender issues, biases and other generalization towards a
specific audience or group.
f. Assessment strategies and methods.
Skills and Abilities to:
a. Apply, model and teach what they have learned in the other
substance areas.
b. Model and teach interpersonal skills, including
communication, problem solving, parenting, stress management,
and general life skills.
c. Demonstrate sensitivity to community concerns and the
culturally specific audience they are teaching, as well as to
the diversity within that audience.
d. Research a topic area and identify the relevant knowledge and
skills to teach.
e. Demonstrate a variety of teaching techniques and methods in
an educational experience designed to teach specific knowledge
and skills.
f. Assess the effectiveness of their teaching experience in
order to determine if outcome goals and competencies were met.
g. Survey and become familiar with community resources and
services.
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Group
Presentations
Demonstration on
active learning teaching method
Professional
Portfolio |
Primary:
CFS 4650
Support:
CFS 3550
CFS 4990B
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Family Studies
faculty |
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11.
Professional Development
Knowledge and Understanding of:
a. Computer literacy skills including e-mail, basic work
processing, internet, and library research.
b. Composition and writing skills (i.e. application of APA
format, technical writing, proposal elements and grant writing
formats).
c. General research and research methodology.
d. Family advocacy processes.
e. Relevant professional organizations and student associations.
f. Basic principles of appropriate professional grooming, dress,
and behavior.
Skills and Abilities to:
a. Create a well researched, accurately documented, and
publishable document that clearly presents ideas and data.
b. Formulate a research proposal.
c. Actively participate in relevant professional and/or student
organizations and associations.
d. Apply principles of professional grooming, dress and
behavior.
e. Represent the department well in academic, professional and
community circles.
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Research project
Membership/leadership in CFSSA
Capstone project
Practicum
supervisor
evaluation
Professional
Portfolio |
Primary:
CFS 4860
CFS 4990B
CFS 3850
Support:
CFS 2990B
CFS 4990B |
Family Studies
faculty
Practicum site
supervisor |
