Jun 14, 2025  
2025-2026 Academic Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Academic Catalog
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SOC 1102 - Relationships, Marriage, and Family


Credits: 3

Catalog Description
This course presents the social and cultural forces that have implications for the formation and maintenance of intimate relationships with special attention to marriage and family forms and functioning. Additionally, the course will compare social/cultural patterns and implications for individuals, groups, and society. The course includes (but is not limited to) a focus on social aspects of relationship formation (mate selection), familial roles, parental roles, sexuality, gender, and relationships distinction.

Recommended Skills, Abilities, or Coursework: College level reading and writing

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) Goal Area(s) fulfilled: Goal 05B: History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Goal 07A: Human Diversity, Race, Power, and Justice in the United States



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