The Minor in Family Relations provides students with a systematic, interdisciplinary approach to the family as an institution, the current state of knowledge relating to family relations, gender relations, and child socialization. This coursework is a valuable complement to studies in psychology, social work, sociology, and child development.
Course Requirements for the Minor
The following courses, or their approved transfer equivalents, are required of all candidates for this minor.
With the approval of the appropriate academic advisor, it is possible to enroll for academic credit in an internship course that is related to your program of study in the social sciences. Internships are permitted or required in about half of the social science depth fields, all of the minors, and in the social science MA program. In some cases, internships may be repeated for credit more than once.
The general guidelines for internships in the undergraduate and graduate Social Science and Special Programs include appropriate class standing, the completion of an appropriate amount of program course work prior to the internship, working approximately 135 hours for each 3 units of credit, the submission of a written proposal to the faculty supervisor describing the job duties and educational objectives associated with the internship, demonstration that the host agency/location is willing to accept the intern and that the duties are acceptable to them, have submitted to the faculty supervisor an evaluation of the intern's work by the agency/location supervisor, and submit to the faculty supervisor a paper of adequate length which describes the character of the internship and its relationship to the academic program within which the student is working. Graduate internships require graduate standing, demonstration that the quality of experience merits graduate credit, and demonstration that the internship fits into the overall graduate program.
